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“Open borders” is a not a hill to die on if you want humane borders. Recognize universal human right to global mobility aspirationally. Block movement by justified exception, permit by default. Crossing a border is not a crime. “Presumed gang-member rapist” is an insane axiom.
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One of the things the pre-Westphalian world had that we don’t is de facto recognition of the universal human right to global mobility. Transport was primitive and it was a bloody and violent world with institutions like serfdom, but at least they didn’t need passports and visas
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You have to be adrift in the oceans today to have legitimacy for your mere existence without paperwork. The only “public” spaces for being simply human are oceanic. Much as I like the aquatic ape hypothesis, that’s not an ideal condition.
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"You have to be adrift in the oceans today to have legitimacy for your mere existence without paperwork." I wish this was a poetic attempt to make your point metaphorically rather than the actual reality.
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