I think I'd question the dichotomy there, but I think your point is: are there things that it should be acceptable to discriminate on when granting residency or citizenship? I'm not sure, to be honest. Certainly to be consistent you'd have to apply the tests to people who were (otherwise) born into citizenship as well as those who relocated into it.
On the one hand, it's currently a utopian dream. On the other, in the C18/C19 century slavery went from the Natural Order Of Things to Universally Unacceptable; in the course of the C20 century colonialism went from the Natural Order Of Things to Universally Unacceptable. I'd like to see a twofold approach of a) making the philosophical case for absolutely open borders in principle; while b) making the political case for consistent loosening of immigration controls (as far as is unlikely to cause chaos at any given time) in practice.
There are lots of other evils to be tackled, but I believe that many of them would be significantly addressed by any approximation to open borders.
(also I don't think elimination of private property is desirable, but would prefer it if we argued about that in another forum, cos one can of worms at a time plz...)
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Date: 2015-07-03 02:18 pm (UTC)On the one hand, it's currently a utopian dream. On the other, in the C18/C19 century slavery went from the Natural Order Of Things to Universally Unacceptable; in the course of the C20 century colonialism went from the Natural Order Of Things to Universally Unacceptable. I'd like to see a twofold approach of a) making the philosophical case for absolutely open borders in principle; while b) making the political case for consistent loosening of immigration controls (as far as is unlikely to cause chaos at any given time) in practice.
There are lots of other evils to be tackled, but I believe that many of them would be significantly addressed by any approximation to open borders.
(also I don't think elimination of private property is desirable, but would prefer it if we argued about that in another forum, cos one can of worms at a time plz...)