The only reason not to treat citizenship as a tradable asset is application of a family model (and a family model at this scale is straight-up ethnonationalism). ...
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... Commercialized nationality would be best, but if that's not your thing there's no point complaining about the alternative.
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Have to disagree here. Nationality is only valuable because people are emotionally attached to it, and will pay tax or risk their lives in the military for the benefit of fellow citizens who they will never meet. Selling it would destroy this loyalty and hence eliminate its value
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... How much "emotional attachment" to random -- and often hostile -- strangers who just happen to have washed up in your territory is it possible to have?
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Fallacy. Being attached to your nation doesn’t mean being attached to your neighbors. Rather, being attached to the nation is what allows us all to dislike our neighbors. Anyway, people still like their families very, very much.
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Enough vibrancy to be fun, but nowhere near enough to count as "vibrancy" among progressives.
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I dunno, are we talking about the places progs praise, or the places they actually live in?
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