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A stacker recently reviewed a book by Bryan Caplan supporting open immigration such as illegal or undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Latin America.
He said I find the concept of borders absurd. We asked him why and are waiting for his answer.
Can @south_korea_ln or anyone else explain why borders are absurd and elaborate on their vision of a world with no borders?
South Korea has a border near 38 parallel with North Korea. The Korean War, 1950-53, preserved the sovereignty of South Korea, which is defined by a border.
42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Krv 9 Mar
Country borders are an absurd concept. As absurd as gangsters who think they 'own' a particular geographical area. Such areas are controlled by violence, threats, and intimidation.
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Why are national borders absurd?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Krv 10 Mar
It's only not absurd if you believe violence is a legit method to claim to ownership land. If I had some kind of alien technology that allowed me to subdue a particular region by force, would you consider it a legit nation? All current nations are the results of various conquests, subsequent stalemates, power struggles, etc. Then a bunch of politicians/military/etc claim the right to control everything in that geographical area. Mafias have the same policy. They claim the right to control businesses and extort people in a particular area, whether or not the people there agree.
Nations' rulers claim some sort of 'collective' land ownership of very large geographical areas, as if everyone owned it, yet these rulers are usually the only ones that have rights to decide what happens to the land. There are various property rights structures, with more or less consistency, but ultimately these individuals can violate these rules, because after all, it is maintained by violence, not by consent.
The only model that could possible be consistent and voluntary, would be something akin to the homesteading principle at small community levels, where individuals or groups can claim the use of small areas of unclaimed land, or trade/buy land from others. If there were many thousands of such communities, people can opt in to whichever community they find and participate voluntarily in the land use, or opt out to some other place. A suppose this is sort of like anarchism but with community governance.
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borders define the area that’s being protected with guns by mobs; you just need to pay your taxes.
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Borders are Biblical! Heaven Is Gated!!!
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