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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) by BeetleB on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:51PM (#20347383)
>Since you renounce your duties to the society that gave you your free education and upbringing, renouncing the benefits sounds fair, yes. Living and dying by your personal convictions is what I respect in people. Living by them only while it's convenient and stopping to do so when they get tested just means that you don't actually have any.

Why not formalize it by saying one should lose citizenship automatically under these circumstances? If you don't agree with that, then realize you are drawing a line somewhere, and deanmoriarty is merely drawing the line in a different place. Both of you are the same, and are merely quibbling with the degree by which you are the same.

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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) by luckylion on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @03:31PM (#20347841)
> Why not formalize it by saying one should lose citizenship automatically under these circumstances?

For practical reasons. It's hard to formalize and having people be stripped of any citizenship is shit. I don't mind the idea of losing your previous citizenship once you acquire a new one, that's fine.

I'd much prefer a system where education etc is fundamentally free but is converted into a loan if you emigrate. Society X invests into you, you want to jump ship to Y so you pay back what X invested into you, possibly in multiple installments or an additional income tax.

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