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Re:The New Europe With Lasting Peace (100 year old map) by csours on Sunday November 08, 2020 @11:49AM (#25026948)
Land doesn't vote - has there ever been a serious attempt to allow political representation by chosen group, no matter where you are? I guess the difficulty would be enforcement of laws - "I'm not bound by those rules, I'm bound by these rules"

I can almost imagine it working with a computer system, but then I think about the problems and weaknesses with the World Wide Web, and I get a little sad.

Re:The New Europe With Lasting Peace (100 year old map) by hutzlibu on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:30PM (#25027251)
""I'm not bound by those rules, I'm bound by these rules"

I don't think that makes much sense. Imagine people coming to your house and declaring you, they are not bound by your home rules, but rather their own rules - so they start a trash party now.

In other words, I think it very much makes sense to bound land and rules. Exception might be nomadic people, like beduins travelling through the desert: when you come to their tents, you are bound by their rules, even though the tents change place.

Re:The New Europe With Lasting Peace (100 year old map) by csours on Sunday November 08, 2020 @01:41PM (#25027811)
> Exception might be nomadic people, like beduins travelling through the desert: when you come to their tents, you are bound by their rules, even though the tents change place.

And dispossessed peoples like the Rohingya in Myanmar, or the Kurds who live in 3 different countries and are not particularly well liked by any of their 'hosts'; the Uyghurs in China.

But people have to live somewhere, and places have governments, and governments may not like some people.

Re:The New Europe With Lasting Peace (100 year old map) by hutzlibu on Sunday November 08, 2020 @01:44PM (#25027845)
"But people have to live somewhere, and places have governments, and governments may not like some people. "

Which is a reason I like the idea of federalism with much more power on the base. Basically, small, but connected states, so chances are higher, the local government represents the local people.