My view on frontiers
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008In my opinion we should remove all frontiers.
People always preach the values of “freedom” and “equality”, but in the end when someone from another country try to get into yours, it’s not the same speech. Yeah, we should be equal… but only if we’re born in the same country !
I was born in France. What make me more entitled to wealth than another guy born in Africa ? Maybe he’s better than me and deserve more, who knows. If he wants to change the ods and get into a place -like Europe- where there are good jobs and good money… well he can’t.
Or it will be complicated. Or illegal.
Why ? If this guy want to get here and work, why should forbid that ? I’m sure that if he is good he will be usefull to society and therefore raise the level of living for everyone ! Of course, he might “steal” my job, but then why should that be MY job ? Because I was born here ?
Also, what is more arbitrary and random than frontiers. Let’s take the example of France, a guy in the south, near Spain, will be closer to their Spanish neighbors in many ways (geographical, cultural…) than to their compatriots from north of France ! So why shouldn’t the south of France and the North of Spain create a country of their own ? Or why every city shouldn’t become a country ?
It is just as arbitrary !
So in the end, because of where you were born you have to stay in this one territory. You can’t go elsewhere unless you go through a lot of procedures and paperwork… that often fail based on some criteria set by the governments.
Frontiers are just a way to keep people from making the best of their life by going to the place they could enjoy the most. It is arbitrary and unfair since the place you are born determine -in most of the cases- the country you’ll have to live in.
PS : A lot of people say that the problem of Africa is that it is overpopulated. The same people say that Europe and developed countries’ populations are getting older and older and that the birth rate is bad…





