Wacky Wednesday--We Should Eliminate Nations

Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.

~No war—when was the last time Texas and Louisiana went to war with each other?

~It would allow for a more equitable distribution of resources.

~Free markets require free movement of labor force to proper labor zones

~We’re already in a global market.

~It would increase the efficiency of government.

~You’re scared of a world government just like Virginia and South Carolina were scared of the United States of America.

~Open borders would decriminalize a vast number of people.

~Don’t you believe in freedom of movement?

~Are we Americans or are we humans?

~You resist this because you think that your concerns will be dominated by the concerns of people elsewhere, but isn’t that just exactly what democracy looks like?

~Increasing exposure to other people and languages would be good for us.

~One set of rules everywhere is the only fair thing.

~Some people really suffer because they are born in awful situations, and other people really prosper because they are born in excellent situations. How is that fair?

~You want to keep America the way it is, but that’s because you were lucky enough to be born here through no merit of your own.

~You wouldn’t have to buy an expensive passport.

~Most countries represent silly and quite arbitrary lines in the sand somewhere that do not properly aggregate likeminded or like-raced individuals at all.

~Even in America, our differences are starting to look insoluble though we all claim to be one big happy country.