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Wild idea. Imagine all nation states and governing entities right down to city level go away, and all movement is governed by microvisas we all issue each other (with algorithmic aid) that apply to territories we happen to temporarily control in some way.
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To first order, the degree to which your humanity is acknowledged by societal consensus is almost perfectly modeled by the territorial extent through which you can move pretty freely. I think this is why I react so strongly against walls/borders.
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So for example, "basic human rights" = "we all grant each other basic presence rights in a personal-space spacetime bubble around wherever we happen to be"
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This is already kinda de facto true. You may find the ranting, smelly homeless person on the sidewalk objectionable, but to the extent you peacefully go around them, you're recognizing their human right to personal space.
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Under most circumstances, most of us (not even most 2nd amendment gun nuts) wouldn't instantly harm someone we found in our space (home, office) who wasn't an obvious clear and present danger. We'd challenge/talk to them, call the cops or something.
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Our basic mutuality-humanity-recognition instincts are actually far more humane than the design of laws and formal structures we've developed to codify/govern them. Design is inhumane because designing to the "limit of decency" is actually hard.
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Trigger-happy gun nuts who would in fact instantly shoot anyone in their claimed territory in a shoot-on-sight mode are either people under orders from military/police regimes OR crazy people who take our space-governance systems a little too literally.