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It might seem ridiculous to section off the entire world with armed guards and determine who can go where based on the lottery of birth.
by scoopdewoop 6y ago
It might seem ridiculous to section off the entire world with armed guards and determine who can go where based on the lottery of birth.
- kube-system 6y agoMost countries are not asking about nationality at their borders because they care about nationality, but because they care about other factors which correlate with nationality and are much harder to measure.
- centimeter 6y agoSure, if you have a completely myopic understanding of the practical realities of immigration.
- refurb 6y agoIt's impossible for a country to be sovereign and at the same time not have control over who enters or leaves a country. So yeah, if you want to get rid of the very idea of countries, it could work...maybe.
- Nasrudith 6y agoThat is asserted often but I doubt the truth. Argentinia constitutionally considers migration a human right. They are a minority and not the most prosperous example of a country but they certainly aren't exceptionally worse off even if they wound up with the awkward combination of an overrepresentation of both infamously Nazi refugees and lesser known refugees fleeing from the Nazis historically.
- refurb 6y agoIf I was from India, I'd need a visa to travel to Argentina. Not a great example.
- elliekelly 6y agoSo most of Europe isn’t sovereign then?
- refurb 6y agoCan anyone in the world just walk into the EU? No.