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Should there be a worldwide unrestricted freedom to migrate?
What would happen if everyone was free to live in any country they chose? Where would people go? Would they seek the countries with the most economic opportunities? The best social services? Since no one chooses where they're born, shouldn't everyone have a chance to choose where they live? Would mass immigration topple well-governed countries? Would mass emigration keep governments honest?
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"Freedom of Spirit and of Movement"Author:
Michael Bien
Time: 02/11/2008 17:44
Comment: We human beings have invested a great deal of energy into our individual and collective national and ethnic identities. If we focused this same energy toward a global unity- ending all sense of competition and exploitation- could we not create a world based upon true equality of essential needs of all people being met, wherein we would also create a global infrastructure conducive to freedom of movement and including a willingness to help maitain the very infrastructure making that freedom possibe where we might choose to migrate or visit? Are we willing to let go of our conditioning to make such a possibility reality?
It would be a huge undertaking and people with the most to share( or in their minds, to lose) would undoubtedly resist, while other less well off fanatics would decry such possibility as... well, I don't know what, but other than the actual idea made into a peaceful reality of freedom of movement and universal, global equality. Personally, I can not think of a world I would rather live in than one where all of humanity has transcended national, ethnic and racial differences- at least in our hearts, should some expression of those differences still remain as creative expression without the exclusion factor-to create a sense of equality that makes certain we all have the basic necessities of life and can move freely to any part of the world to experience the same sense of equality, as expressed in harmony with the enviroment, human history and infrastructure needed to support human life, while respecting all the rest of life. A dream, yes, but far more worthy than a future of competition, divisions and killing-in a word, GREED! |
"MIgration"Author:
Nadeem Shaikh
Time: 07/24/2007 08:52
Comment: The Governments of individual countries should give their citizens right to move freely to migrate any countries of their choice with proper channel (docs and sufficient means).
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