free migration is not a universal human right

i just want to state that this is my own opinion. i know others will see it differently and this post is gonna get 50 downvotes because people ... idk what people are thinking.

anyways, if you look at world history, sure, people always migrated, but mass-migration of people was rather the exception than the norm, and basically anytime that massive amounts of people migrated at once, it was because they conquered another place and committed a genocide. because there was no general other way to settle a place that's already settled. because of reality constraints: food production doesn't scale linearly with farmers. it scales linearly with land available.

anyways, we live in modern times now and surely things are different? well, kinda, but not fully. yes, when european people settled in america, it did cause dramatic suffering among the native population. there are various estimates out there saying that around 30 million native americans lost their lifes due to disease, famine, violence. (ironically this was probably less devastating than many other genocides that happened in world history when large migrations occurred, because about 10 million native americans survived, which means it's not a complete genocide. still bad though)

anyways, my summary is that basically there's never really been a large-scale migration in human history that hasn't caused chaos on the receiving end. that's why i fundamentally don't see free migration as a universal human right.

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