RE: French Presidential elections
April 24, 2017 at 10:38 am
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2017 at 10:46 am by Isis.)
(April 24, 2017 at 10:25 am)pocaracas Wrote: Yeah, yeah... the old us vs them tribal thing that humans still carry around in their genes...
Jesus.
I support immigration. I want to move country myself one day but I don't think the EU should be working towards the United States of Europe. They have got enough power over member states as it is.
(April 24, 2017 at 10:25 am)pocaracas Wrote: I like the concept of the global village, where each person can go anywhere on Earth and live and work, without needing to deal with certain regions' claim on the person... where each region does retain it's individual qualities, most of them borne out of geography and climate, and can also easily interact with other regions for trade.
One centralized governmental body would make it oh so much easier to properly implement environmentally sound regulations, everywhere... no need to worry that the neighbor is going to be producing cheaper stuff because they don't have to answer to some regulatory body.
And a myriad other things like tax havens, exchange rates, etc etc etc etc....
Sure, some things would be more complex... but overall I think things would be better for the whole of humanity.
Cool, but you're too idealistic and setting yourself up for some pretty major disappointment. A one world government with open borders everywhere is never going to happen.
Trust me, I would just love to be able to enter the US, Canada and Japan and start living and working there without needing to go through immigration systems but it just wouldn't work in practice. Borders are not tribalistic, you can be welcoming to immigrants but also want to keep the troublemakers out.
