• The thing about being terminally online is that it’s incredibly easy to imagine (and see, really) a world without borders. Interacting with people from almost every country in the world daily without even having to put on pants.

  • Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Guarantee you if we magically eliminated borders world war 3 would erupt the next day as countries desperately redraw them.

    Good idea in principle, but not feasible in this day and age. Humans are simply not sociologically advanced enough to sustain that kind of political venture. For starters, humans produce more than enough food to feed the world and yet food insecurity is rampant even in countries with excess.

    Open borders will happen when the rest of humanity’s shit has been sorted out, not the other way around.

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    5 months ago

    The border does divide one society from another. The border usually stops them from tearing each other apart.

    We’ll get there, but not yet.

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    5 months ago

    People divide themselves.

    They want to be separated. They want community with people like themselves. They want to be away from people that are not like them. That’s why countries divide rather than join. They only tend to expand through war.

    Even when you get immigration. Those immigrants then put themselves in their own communities. It’s like putting extra borders up in a country.