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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Prisoners, homeless people swept back periodically into "bad" blocks, refugees, developing country people penned into weak-passport zones, etc etc.
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In a way, nativism, property rights, and other forms of territoriality are a red herring. People with power to claim exclusive power over territory X generally have a roaming range FAR bigger than X. If you have a US passport and enough $, your roaming range is most of the world.
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Territorial claims are entirely about restricting the roaming range of others. Territorialists would scream bloody murder if you told them "fine you can have territory X so long as you never leave it"
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That assumes that walls, borders, locked doors etc are really all about restricting others roaming ranges.
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People have all that stuff for security. Roaming seems to be the wrong description of what happens in life. Most people go from their home to work & from work to home & home to the store. That's it.
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