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by ephemeral-life
878 days ago
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> alignment of laws with our actual desires as a society. The fact is, people desire different things from society. Some people want to have other people take control, because they believe it provides them with security. Others want total freedom and the two are completely incompatible. I think the only solution is to leave behind the old way of people staying in the nation they are born. Different nations should be allowed to have completely different policies and people should be allowed to choose which policy sets best fit with their ideology and be allowed to freely move to the nation that applies. |
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I agree, that is a fact: a minority of people do desire different things from society, by definition, because what the majority wants is what society wants, by definition. How much does that matter in reality? Of course we can't allow a person to veto society, that would be minority rule, which is inferior to majority rule, all other things being equal.
I'm not sure why, but it feels like an unpopular minority has, over the last few decades in the u.s., been less and less accepting of this, and felt more entitled to veto the whims of society (a.k.a. the majority) in favor of their personal whims, rather than convincing the majority (a.k.a. society) to agree with them.
> Different nations should be allowed to have completely different policies and people should be allowed to choose which policy sets best fit with their ideology and be allowed to freely move to the nation that applies
I also agree here: it'd be great to be able to pick and choose countries, for a number of reasons, including the one you cite. One difficulty is, the other side of the coin is: each country also gets to pick and choose citizens as it sees fit. But if you disagree with a given country's society (a.k.a. disagree with the majority), it seems reasonable to want to leave it for one you agree with.