This doesn't address the parent's point. First, the context of the parent's comment about countries being arbitrary divisions was clearly with regard to human

This doesn't address the parent's point. First, the context of the parent's comment about countries being arbitrary divisions was clearly with regard to human rights. Secondly, your argument is completely circular. That people in Nebraska will defend your freedom does not make national divisions any less arbitrary. It simply means that those who would do so have bought into the arbitrary divisions. So, you are effectively saying that if we can get people to believe in those arbitrary divisions, then they are not arbitrary.