We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14031121.
Sovereignty works not only for full democracies, but also for monarchies, dictatorships, and various kinds of representative decisionmaking.
But the main point I was trying to make is that if "you were born in England and lived there all your life. Then you fly over to Thailand on a tourist visa" then whatever social contract Thailand people have established in Thailand doesn't matter - you are not entitled to its benefits, you are not part of their social group (yet?), you don't have an inherent right to be part of that group, and it's up to them whether they will extend their social contract to you at all and if so, on what conditions. In this regard it doesn't make a meaningful difference how Thailand decides it and who gets asked. Self-determination of countries is a thing even if those countries are internally governed very unfairly - coming from outside it doesn't matter, you anyway wouldn't get a say on how they're governed.
Again, it doesn't matter of all or most people there were asked on that - if they don't like their system, they're free to change it, but until then whoever or whatever rules there gets to make the rules how Thailand will handle travel across it's borders.
Unrestricted travel is not a core human right, the right of national/regional self-determination is considered more important and overrides it. There is a right to decide who visits in your territory, and there is no inherent right for a visitor to come if they're not invited.
In general, coercion is unavoidable - either you have no rules and then de facto anybody can (and will!) coerce others to arbitrary things up to their ability; or you have rules and someone/something needs to coerce that these rules are followed. You can't simply have a consensus that everybody will never coerce anybody else, well, not if the society is made of people like us, it might be an option for a nonhuman/posthuman society. So starting from a premise that all coercion must be removed is counterproductive and futile. Where a system with more suffering can be replaced with a system with less suffering (for example, replacing anarchy with strict rule of law) I definitely am cheering for the coercion required to do so.
> You know that's just flat out false, especially considering you've personally never been asked about it.
Assuming the country in question is democratic, and you are of legal voting age, then yes, you have been asked about it.
If you don't agree with certain laws you are free to vote for somebody who follows your views or stand yourself.
You know that's just flat out false, especially considering you've personally never been asked about it.
> countries agree to give up part of sovereignty
Again, you were not asked. Neither was any other ordinary person affected.
> the tourist visa explicitly has a number of terms and conditions
I brought up the idea of the Social Contract. You're talking about something completely unrelated, and thus not addressing my point.
But whatever. You're most likely just yet another psychopath spewing your bullshit, and this account is probably shadow-banned already, because I'm.. wrong?