Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Thoughts about visas in 21st century

We live in a world where nanotechnology and space travel have become common place. Where flights have allowed us to cover huge distances in mere hours. Just think about how long your last flight would have lasted if you were to go on the horse!

Yet we live in a medieval age in regards to countries and borders. Back then each city was building walls around itself in order to protect itself from conquesters. And each country has build national borders in order to protect it's land and citizens. This all made sense at that time. There were enemy armies and it was common to top-up one's treasury by conquering a neighbour country.

A child doesn't choose in which country to be born. A person who happen to be born on one country may want to travel to another. Unrestricted. He could have been born in a different country. Somehow the act of being born at some place or the other enables him to have more or less opportunities in live.

Nations which require a visa seem to be proud of themselves so much that they prevent other people from visiting their country. I can understand being proud. But shouldn't you invite others to share your country's beauty?

A visa requirement is imposing large barriers on applicants and it's kind of preselecting people. One needs to be relatively rich in order to just pay for visa application. One needs to provide a lot of personal information in the application and provide evidence for it. And then the authorities may still choose to reject entrance to their country.

Being born at some place doesn't mean that person himself is good or bad. Shouldn't the passports based on the ethical behavior of the person make more sense than based on the political map?

Imagine an international worldwide passport which identifies a person and a worldwide database of criminal, ethical, environmental and moral offenses. Everyone is trusted to have a good will and allowed to travel the world. But somebody who killed a dog or even another person should remain in the region where he is and not pose a threat to other regions.

Probably it only makes sense to me...

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