What would happen if we erased all country borders and let people live wherever they wanted? Would it be a good or bad thing? Why?

[cupidkisses]

Good

Bad

[lotv56]

One world order basically? Yea that would be a distaster. Who's going to be in charge? Are you thinking of a one world government? a king and queen? no one in charge? I mean there's so much more to look at. I can't say exactly how it will work out because no borders is such a broad idea.

[Quibit]

Every 5 years we'd have an election and choose a president.

[lotv56]

@Quibit Okay but there would be no borders lol so what if someone picks someone like KimJong un. It's a horrible idea. Why 5 years? If you don't like the president then what option will you have? There's no other alternative. You can't move to another planet. It will be one world order. If you don't find anything wrong with that then I suggest to look more into it on how things could possibly work with a one world order. Remember this later on because I really do believe that one day it will become a one world order and it will not turn out well because then people will really have to depend on only one man who could be evil.

[LittleSally]

Not sure. Interesting Q for sure...
Maybe all the bad in the world would distribute itself more evenly then... Would be good for some, bad for others.
Also - how would the legal systems work? Governments?
There are a lot more questions there before we give good answers.

[LittleSally]

Thank you for the mho!

[JimRSmith]

It would be a completely shit situation.

Some countries would get flooded with people, and others would become depopulated.

Countries exist for the benefit of THEIR citizens, not the world in general.

[JimRSmith]

Thanks for MHO

[gothwriter79]

Be awesome. Borders have been UGH! to me.

[LegateLanius]

When you wipe borders you are asking for a common world government.
Any kind of authority needs a boundary. Think of this simple scenario. A guy commits murder and runs off to a distant country. Without political boundaries how will you bring that guy to justice?
International police?
What a crime is depends on a particular legal system. A crime in one place would not be a crime elsewhere. In Saudi Arabia being a gay is a crime, while marrying multiple women is not. If you don’t have any boundary with Saudi Arabia, what kind of laws will you have - yours or theirs?
A world without borders will need a single world government that will follow the laws of the majority.
Will you follow capitalism, communism, socialism or some such combination? Will it be labor friendly or business friendly? Will it allow equal rights for women? Will it keep religion from the workplaces and law?
What options do you have if you don’t like?
What if you don’t like their laws and execution? Where will you immigrate to? How will you escape such a government? What if the President of the World Republic is casual about the use of poison gas on dissidents?
We need nations - a group of people who aspire for a particular legal system/political system/economic system/cultural system.
For nations to exist, there needs to be political boundaries. Otherwise, the authority enforcing the legal/economic/political system cannot do anything.

[Being_a_good_Indian]

Global citizenship is idea of all persons having rights and civic responsibilities that come with being a member of the World, with whole-world philosophy and sensibilities, rather than as a citizen of a particular nation or place. The idea is that one’s identity transcends geography or political borders and that responsibilities or rights are derived from membership in a broader class: "humanity". This does not mean that such a person denounces or waives their nationality or other, more local identities, but such identities are given "second place" to their membership in a global community.

[Being_a_good_Indian]

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I wish other people also adopt the same concept.

[MysteryPerson70]

the Jews have their promised land that the Lord God promised their fathers (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob). that land is bordered, they must get that land and they will but as for the rest of the land and their borders,
it would still be a problem because Acts 17:26 clearly shows about their proper places to live

"And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;"

[LalofromLA]

It's a nice ideology: a nation united as a single race. But by doing that, you are already promoting the superiority of one culture over another. Borders aren't the problem. It's the hate that is made by using borders as an excuse to put down a human being.

[NucDylan]

The issue is more: how do taxes work? If people can just move around, who do they pay? Who is responsible for service delivery to which people? Borders aren't really a bad thing, it's just if there's a massive difference in quality of life then it seems a big thing

[shubhamchachapara]

I would like to say that if border is erased that doesnot mean all the differences between us is erased. People's mentality is still antediluvian and we talk about national borders but in my country there are lots of discrimination on the bases of states. These is just to give idea about about racism. Erasing border would not help but erasing malice in others mind would definitely work

[Miristheiss]

All the prosperous western nations would be overrun and in a few years these countries would no longer be prosperous and successful, they'd be more like the countries everyone else was leaving.

[Celtero]

"Live wherever they want."
So... Does that mean I can take one of Justin Beiber's houses?

Jokes aside, it would simply result in much more homelessness and crime in developed countries.

[dragonxbars]

If we erased all borders, those countries would no longer exist. So no, it would not result in more homelessness and crime.

[Celtero]

@dragonxbars That... doesn't make any sense, at all. Is it because I said developed countries instead of devolved regions?

[dragonxbars]

We're talking about erasing all borders, so no countries would exist.

[Celtero]

@dragonxbars

Okay, neat.

But if people live in a wealthier area, wouldn't there be an increased amount of homelessness and crime from migration?

[dragonxbars]

Maybe. But we never said that the people would be moved to wealthier areas. They might still be the same distance or a far distance from the wealthy people.

[Celtero]

@dragonxbars... UHG! Don't waste my time if you don't have anything smart to say.

[dragonxbars]

You're the one spouting random stuff. All I did was correct you. lol

[Celtero]

@dragonxbars Let me explain to you what you don't understand...

People in poor countries often would rather live in wealthy countries because they tend to have more resources such as clean water, food, and shelter; not to mention if you're poor you get free money through welfare. Sometimes, the only thing keeping them out of wealthy countries are borders and laws. Now, if those borders were to vanish, what would stop them from moving to a country where they think they'd have a better quality of life? Nothing! So they would move en masse to wealthier parts of the world. Now, eventually housing would fill up, there wouldn't be enough jobs, and possibly not enough food. Nowhere to stay, people live on the streets. Nothing to eat, so people steal and rob to fill their bellies.

Making sense now?

[TripleAce]

Worlds probably too big now infested with people lol... once population gets to 9 billion... well 'they' seem to believe the war is the solution...

Wipe out a few billion maybe more... restart

[danpossibly]

regretably idealistic I'm afraid, not for the typical hate monger reasons, but it'd be way to destablising for the world economy, and would create even worse class divide between the poor and the rich

[ZeussLightningBolt]

I think it would be good, but like people would cluster together anyways.
But I'm thinking in the sense that there wouldn't even be any nations

[BrianMerritt]

It depends on the other changes that come with it.
It is not a simple situation.

[Anonymous]

Every one would head to eroup and North America and the high population areas look for money and jobs then there won’t be any and the wage would decrease as there’s so many people willing to work for less

[pizzalovershouse]

it would start wars you see what hapoens in other countries

[Razal]

Everyone will try to move to high income places and that will crowd those places and possible bring more crime there.

[Seppelson]

Borders are just an illusion. They are good for nothing

[omggrae]

It would cause some unique kind of anarchy!

[TheFlak38]

Another strong believer in marxist fantasy worlds.

[monkeynutts]

World economic devastation.

[Anonymous]

Herds of people would swamp Europe and America.

[Quibit]

Heard of people have already swamped America, the only people who have any right to be there are confines to reservations and illegal immigrants are squatting on all the best land.

[Opinion Owner]

@Quibit ah good then you support the colonialism of Africa by whites.