What is the point in...?

Question

having countries...

shouldn't we all be able to live where we want in the world?

This has nothing to do with earning anything... I just mean settling down and LIVING where you want.
On whatever land you want, as long as it is not OWNED obviously.

Answer 1

next you'll be sayign we should all earn the same, bit of a commie?

Answer 2

You ask a good question, mate. It's a good question because it has different answers depending on what you are really asking. The question has so many layers and each layer demands different answers.

At a simple glance, one could say that yes in theory we can live any where we want to live by simply migrating to different countries.

At a more philosophical level, it's a question of why we need to have a state or multiple states at all. Why can't we simply get along nicely without having different rules and regulations applied to different parts of the world with different group of people... This one opens a whole can of worms. A highly debatable issue that will take more than a few lines of answers to suffice. I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of books written arguing pros and cons of this very issue.

Answer 3

well think of it this way, if there were no countries to begin with, everyone would go to an equatorial climate (humans are tropical animals). There would be a space problem because no one would want to live in certain parts of the world. But since there were countries, people have adapted to living in the same place their ancestors lived years ago. Countries locate places, rules and people. Different people have different thoughts so eventually all the people who thought the same thoughts would gather together and there would be boundaries formed.

Answer 4

Sometimes, I too like to think like a bird, or like the gentle breeze that swifts past check posts, over the borders, and across boundaries etched only in the mind of the people of the nations in the single mankind. However, the reasons for having the earth divided up into countries are frequent, as they grow upon fertile lands, are encrusted as minerals in the folds of earth and also ooze out of deepest holes that modern man depends upon.

We have our needs and then we depend on identities we acquire when we belong to a race, culture, religion, a nation, an ideology, a republic, a dominion or a group. And within that we forge our specific thinking, lifestyles, mindsets, mentalities, set of values and then elaborate legislations to internally safeguard what that we stand for; and then at the same time armies to safe ourselves from the possibilities of any external aggression.

The basic fact in human nature is that we need to know ourselves. We need to know if there is purpose to our life, where are we from and where are we going? All these big questions are spiritual in nature, but as the ultimate answers cannot be found, only relative ones. These relative answers we seek from the reassurance of being together as, for instance, nations and groups.

Without being a part of some subdivision in mankind we would not be able to manage very well, as for example a monolithic mega collective.

But the idea is not pointless altogether in fact it has close affinity to human potential that might reveal itself in the future. As very the age might dawn one day when people might be able to define themselves differently, more spiritually or essentially, and less formatively or relatively, to seek identities sort of divine in nature. We might see that we have spiritual needs, needs for self-development to govern our physical needs. Mankind might then be able to live freely upon earth peacefully as everyone then would be seeking common goals for the excellence in being.

Answer 5

Only1....That lie must be really big if you are thinking of leaving the Country. We have Countries because once upon a time our ancestors move from one place to another. They settled in various corners and over time claimed that part of the World as theirs.

History will tell you more.

Answer 6

Name a country in the world where thousands of people (who all thought there was a point in having countries) have not died to protect and expand their borders, you can have your utopia there.

Otherwise you can live anywhere they will have you.

Answer 7

that's a really good point... i think that the point in having countries is to have the world in a more organized way... plus it keeps cultures together, and makes life easier on some people...


of course if there were no countries there would be no war...?

Answer 8

this is all down to politics they have issues with other countries and so eventually this will create a war and then it is blamed on religion and then fanatics take over so this then rules out living in a country that you want

Answer 9

How can land be owned? Why do we all fall for this? It makes no sense.

I am right with you on this one.

Answer 10

To have conflict,then wars,poverty the list is as long as you want it to be.

Answer 11

It's an interesting thought but it's also a bit late...