What's the better comparison?

Question

Is the border wall more like:

a) The concrete barrier on freeways between eastbound and westbound traffic

b) The concrete barrier between the Carpool lane and the regular, congested lanes

c) The ornate fence around upscale gated communtities (you can come in with permission

or

d) The Berlin Wall (remember: no communications whatever were allowed over that wall and it divided not only a single country or state but went straight thru school districts, neighborhoods, etc. A border wall would be between two distinct nations.)

Answer 1

The purpose of the Berlin wall was to protect one nation (perceived itself to be a nation) from another. The nation that set up the wall was paranoid.
While the situation is very different, I think we can see the comparison. We don't have the dictatorship behind the Mexican Wall, but we do have one paranoid nation - or rather, one paranoid government of a nation, a government that would like its naiton's population to be as paranoid as the government is.

Answer 2

C It's not ornate, atleast until they start spraying grafitti on it.....but it has entry and exit points. There was an invisible border in which people could have respected and entered and exited at the proper point.......but they didn't. If you can't respect an invisible line then people are forced to build a fence.....a definate visible line that says you cannot cross here. If you can't respect a fence then, more drastic measures have to be taken.

When my parents built this house....they never wanted a fence. We had a beagle pup that was chained out by his dog house in our back yard. There were kids across the street that kept tormenting our dog and even went in the dog house to torment him more when we went out. Eventually the dog bit one of the kids. On a chain, in our yard. My parents were told we needed to build a fence because since it was children they didn't know what property lines ment and a fence would let them know. That worked for awhile. Till the kids got older and could jump the fence. They weren't after the dog then...it was a short-cut to friends houses. My parents didn't mind till they started stealing all the vegetables in his garden and breaking into his garage to steal tools. They were told to put a higher fence up. They did. As well as locks and alarms and motion lights. By that time the kids were in jail and we never got to a conclusion as to what would work. Dad was ready with buck shot if need be and fortunatly was never tested.

Point is....there were alternatives for how they could get to their friends house. Dad didn't even mind being used as a short cut. But when they started stealing and everything else......what are you to do? There was no respect for anything. So now this neighborhood is one 10 ft. privacy fence after another. Either by law or by being forced to. A 4 ft fence around a pool on your property was changed to a 6 ft and a lock which was changed to a 10 ft and a lock and also then an alarm company. People are nice and invite people over to swim in their pool during certain hours. But even that wasn't enough. Other people don't have a right to things you have bought and paid for and maintain just because they don't have one. People shared....that wasn't enough. So tell me......when is enough, enough?

If a door isn't enough because there's a window. When a fence isn't enough and alarms aren't enough.......what does a person do? What does a country do?

You do work, you expect to be paid, you use that money to buy things.....now it seems that once you buy something....it's free game for someone to take because they want it. Why work then? Why have anything if it means someone can take it? What's the point if it's a free for all? There are those who need it, those that want it ,and those that just take it because they can. Where's the line?

Answer 3

More like the freeway barriers. It keeps things flowing smoothly but, according to the rules (set up for our safety, in this case; for law and order in the immigration case) you can be in whichever lane (economic system) is appropriate.

I think the wall may be necessary. And it would probably be followed by a surprising outflow of charity from U.S. citizens for two reasons:

First, we'd be SOOOOO grateful to have back what we've worked so hard for and

Second, since the government isn't forcing the money out of us, we'd be more inclined to show our inherent generousity.

Answer 4

Which border? The one between Mexico and the USA?

lol Berlin Wall? haha As you can see the "wall" doesn't work as it is...not even close.

Answer 5

A berlin wall was on the political agenda, however, ther was a all of a sudden lack of funding. I think it costed 11billion, and they only came up with 7. I think that would have been plenty to build a such wall. This is a problem that needs to be addressed, but won't be. We need to do something drastic before this becomes the united states of Meximerica.

Answer 6

we need the border fence with military armed and ready.

Answer 7

I pick D for the Mexican/American border please.