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It’s not might makes right. The people who form a government and have jurisdiction through democratic government have the right to govern and be governed accor

• tomrod 4y ago
  > The people who form a government and have jurisdiction through democratic government have the right to govern and be governed according to the rules they agree upon democratically. Which attempts to abrogate the right to free association and movement. "People vote with their feet" is a truism that applies here as well, in my view. > They made the country for themselves. When did Japan first incorporate? Long before the lifetime of the current population. > Others can make their own to their own liking as well. Where? What if three or four Japanese people want to declare an open border, making their own to their own liking? This principle falls apart. > W/re Japan, it would be overwhelmed by Chinese, if they just let anyone in. China is big and strong enough for them to take care of their own people without needing to colonize Japan. Therefore, what?