If there were no national borders.
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
December 17, 2010 2:09pm CST
While it's true that national borders are artificial lines, that doesn't mean they have no meaning and serve no purpose.
We have many kinds of artificial lines. Without them, there is no privacy, no property rights, and no personal freedom or human rights.
Your own personal space is the most basic artificial line. If someone gets too close to us without permission, we feel imposed on and invaded. There is nothing concrete about this concept. We just claim a few inches beyond our body surface as "our own" and expect others to respect that border.
Property lines are another artificial border. These range from a single room in a building up to thousands of acres. Either by legal document or an understanding between people, we demand these borders be respected.
Without political borders, there is no law and order. Each country sets these laws by whatever system of government the country is run. Cross the border and a new set of laws is imposed on the people.
There are many who would erase all national borders. The people who advocate this have little to no respect for personal freedom. They somehow think that a lack of government, laws or standards would make everyone free. But that would require everyone in the world to respect the personal borders of everyone else.. which of course, is naive.
We set borders between towns, cities, counties, states (or provinces), and nations because we know that different cultures don't want to do things the same way as others. People in the US aren't necessarily the same as people in Canada or Mexico, even if there is no geographic differences on either side of the borders... and shouldn't be expected to be.
Yes, we are all humans, but that doesn't mean we are all the same.
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7 responses
@Archie_lko (29)
• India
18 Dec 10
its very obvious that national border are very very essential. But, but freinds just think for 1 sec just 1 second that if we had a world wide powerful government according to which everyone is allow to roam throughout the world without any passport or visa. What we all need to follow is some legals. JUST THINK ABOUT IT GUYS JUST ONCE.......
@Archie_lko (29)
• India
26 Jan 11
the world wide supreme power will maintain and judge those legals or the legal rules that we have to follow.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
26 Jan 11
So you are all about tyranny and slavery for us all, huh?
@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
18 Dec 10
I get where you are coming from but a world without borders generally is used when their is either a New World Government structure of some kind in place to maintain order and yes some form of borders between people. Another version would be that people are violent and all that because we teach them to be that way which I personally don't agree with.
I think that in order to have a world without borders first things first somethings are going to have to change and their are rumors of it already happening that the forming of the EU was nothing more than a response to NAFTA which could be the forming of a NAU (North American Union) which would include Canada, USA and Mexico. As these "Unions" form it would slowly come to a point where either a War is started and two of the Unions join to fight agianst the other two (Africa and Asia). The two that are rumored to Join forces and become one massive Union is the EU and NAU would be most likely to join while the African Union and the Asian Union remain separate. Anyway after the War the World comes out of it with a United World Government. The belief is that the EU and NAU come out on top.
@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
19 Dec 10
Under some of the theories they say that the United States form of government because one the Lominati are controlling the United States and we are their flagship country. Another theory is that the Internet will pick our form of government and thus help the world ease into our system. In most of the positive one world government stories I have heard ours is the one that wins over through either the War I talked about or through the peaceful transition that is started by the people that pick our form of government. This comes about through a series of cyberwars that take down countries ability to block the internet and spreads our system of government like a virus to the people of the planet.
It would depend as far as how the government was set up if we did a system like this and the people of the planet consented to it. Their may be some minor fighting but we could keep a good portion if not all of our freedoms as every country would be treated as a state. with their own level of sovereignty.
I think the United States system of government is the only one that could handle the pressure of running the whole world. AS dictator ships while being efficient can't work as quickly as a Democratic Constitutional Republic can.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
20 Dec 10
So what happens when Communists, Socialists and Anarchists don't want to be forced into a world wide Constitutional Republic?
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
19 Dec 10
And a national boundary is the same. If someone is violating them, they are too close. :~D
@smukherjee_on_line (578)
• India
18 Dec 10
I think man mentality is not that kind of clear. We are very much selfish. That's why it is not possible in this dirty world......
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
19 Dec 10
True, and it's why borders are important. They set boundaries on the power hungry.
@madteaparty (2748)
• Japan
18 Dec 10
Um, I see your point. Human beings have an unpredictable nature, and without some rules we would turn wild and probably do a lot of horrible things, as there's no law to forbid it.
At first of reading your post I was thinking "why does this person think that national borders are that neccessary?", but now I understand your point of view. Our own personal space is something very dear to us, and we need not only some personal space but some identity too. National borders are a way to get some identity.
I can't say that I completely agree or disagree, as I'm kind of neutral regarding that matter, though.
@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
17 Dec 10
Yes, we are not all the same at all. We are all different in a family is as well, so how could we expect for a bigger community to have members who are all of the same.
Those country boarders are indeed artificial, because they are made by the great powers, who have changed many country boarders during the history. If the great powers wanted to weaken a country, they have made everything to achieve this, and changing the boarders of that particular country was the easiest method to do this. But with that they have crossed many human rights boarder, so why should we respect those boarders?
I respect only what and who respects me and whatever is in concordance with my beliefs and principles. If I don't believe that something or somebody has to be respected, I will not respect that.
Hope it is clear what I am trying to say here.
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
17 Dec 10
I agree. I was writing about Europe last year and was surprised that anyone there can travel between borders easily since they established the EU. It sounded kind of nice but I would think it would be a security nightmare.
I wish the U.S. government would get it's collective head out of its collective behind and realize the danger of our porous borders. When I traveled to Canada they have quite rigorous border protection while coming back was a breeze. Our southern border might as well be deserted, the security is so lax and stretched so thin.
