[9x39]

This view reduces countries to nothing more than oversized hotels or economic zones, as if they don’t have communities that go back many generations and who would fight or die to defend the borders.

Think this through: If the world likes your real estate, they can just come in and take it over overnight? Borders suddenly don’t matter?

Pop caps can easily be understood as visa or naturalization buffers. Hysteria doesn’t help.

[donkeybeer]

Do you own that land? If you don't, then its not your land and not for you to decide what to do with it. Where has anyone proposed taking over someone's land?

[9x39]

The Swiss own Switzerland, to clear this up.

[rimbo789]

Nationalism and borders have done very little for humanity.

The world would be a better place if we defined our communities by how we welcomed people and not by who we excluded

[9x39]

If that was the case, there would be no need to worry about migrating to the area formerly-known-as-Switzerland to be among its people, would there?

The people who clamor for moving there now could simply remake what they imagine liking about it in another area - careful not to erect borders or engender any kind of pride or loyalty to what they build, naturally.