Why do we need boundries among mankind?

Question

Do we really need the boundries and different countries in the name of nation.

Answer 1

Its true that lots of people like being around people that are similar to themselves, but the US (excluding state boundries) is known as the melting pot? And many other people tend to take pride in the fact that there is such diversity in the US.

I prefer the diversity. Sameness gets boring quickly in my opinion.

The only kind of boundries I do agree with are those created for safety issues, such as prisons. Wasn't Australia basically a prison initially? I guess they deported all the criminals, murderers etc to that land mass to separate them like a timeout chair. How you would do that on the scale of nations I don't know. Would be interesting if all the countries currently involved in wars were plucked from the world and dropped on another, livable planet. Really I think just stronger global government, say the UN++, would be sufficient for handling the safety issues.

Then the last thing to consider is simply the handiness of location. You know nation by its location. If there were no national boundries, wouldn't you end up having to tell location by latitude/longitude? How many main streets are there in the world. How would you find the right main street if there were no city names.

Answer 2

Yes. Mankind by nature is very territorial, and boundaries seperate not just geographical areas, but give and help to preserve a nations identity. Nationhood is as old as civilization and as an idea has stood the test of time in both its purpose and function in preserving social, political, religious, and economic sovereignty. There are those megalomaniacs among us in government, industry, and law who would love nothing more than for all boundaries to come down and for one New World Order to take their place. Whether this will actually happen or not is a topic of debate in many circles, but I personally believe it has already happened. There are summits and treaties which have already made most nations a body politic in name only. This is dangerous, but the New World Order will fail miserably. Its chief architect, Satan, is into everything and as a result, his agents on earth are screwing up bad and are being exposed daily. The next thirty -forty years will be real interesting.

Answer 3

Boundary-setting begins in our physical body when we recognize what is within our body and outside of it. We of course need to set this boundary to preserve ourselves (we do not put our hands in the fire so that it will not burn). We extend this boundary-setting consciousness to a larger group but not with the same noble reason as self-preservation that we do with our body.

When we extend this to a larger group, the biological basis for such boundary-setting is confused or lost with manmade reasoning and thus are often not necessary or turn to something we consider as evil and not functional.

Examples of this is ethnocentrism or the view that one's group is superior over other groups which many people view as evil. The anti-thesis of ethnocentrism is nationalism, which many view as good. (Notice that I use good and evil loosely because it is manmande)

The two examples are essentially the same but social connotations on the subjects are different.

Answering your question, we sometimes need those boundaries in the same way we need to protect our family members but we do not need it when such boundary-setting will subjugate other members of another boundary. (In the same way that the nationalism of the NAZI resulted to the death of 6 million Jews)

Answer 4

do u mean borders?the reason for this is planning..how would we know how much houses to build, doctors to employ, teachers to train, hospitals etc if populations moved around freely, obviously some areas/countries are going be more popular than some and thus become congested...am happy the Uk has border control, it might be crap but at least its something, makes me sleep a little better...as for invisible boundaries, man needs them, since man first inhabited the earth, he would seek to claim lands as his, to hunt in and live, its natural, what would happen if people wandered the world trying to lay claim to land already occupied? wars...so borders and boundaries are required physically and mentally...people without boundaries are lost

Answer 5

For some the answer is: to punish them afterwards. For others: to suffer from it afterwards. For me: to not matter at times like these.

Answer 6

I think we would be better off without them. Everyone would just be the human race.

Answer 7

Because we are still as territorial as any other animal.

Answer 8

its natural... becoz people love people that have a same background with them

Answer 9

chaos and disorder!