Thank you for your input hobie!

YES, it is very true that the human body has "borders" BUT not the individual organs.
Mankind can be likened as ONE ORGAN in the body and not the complete body itself. We can give blood and transplant body parts to each other because we are of "one blood".

My point is that borders (policies, regulations, permits, licenses, etc.) are limitations and barriers in our advancement and personally I don't care for such limitations.

Before the tower of Babel, mankind didn't have borders and as a result, mankind was united but "God" didn't like it, according to a record.

Once somebody says "this is mine" (establishing borders) all hell breaks loose and the fighting starts.

Who is happy with income tax policies, driver licenses, passports, building permits and on and on?
These are privately established "borders" and I doubt anyone of us were asked if we want them or not.

A certain group of entities are making decisions for us to their advantage, without asking us.
The same goes for the literal country borders.

Texas used to belong to Mexico if I am correct.
Why Mexico doesn't take it?
Because America is stronger but strength (might) doesn't make right.

Hungarians are EXTREMELY sore and angry about Transylvania. After WW1, TWO THIRD of Hungary was STOLEN.
What was the unforgiving "sin" of the Hungarians that they were punished by stealing TWO THIRD of their country?

You see. When there are borders, there is friction. There are other European countries with border issues.

It appears to me that the EU was/is a "pilot project" about the unification of mankind.

: Hi, sonofthewind -

: Borders define. :) They don't simply keep people trapped
: inside or held outside. That would have more to do with how
: the borders are being used and utilized, which is a
: responsibility of governments and/or of the people
: themselves.

: But the very existence of borders, defining "things are
: like this over here versus like that over there",
: don't prohibit a coming together of people in meaningful
: ways.

: The human body is one unified thing. But within it, there are
: borders that define where the pancreas is and where the
: liver is, etc. Blood may flow to all those bordered areas,
: but the liver cells have no business waltzing freely into
: the pancreas area. :) Their different functions, all of
: which support and are necessary to the unified whole body,
: rightly are contained within their distinct boundaries.

: --hobie

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