Feel like I'm about done with the silly 12-year-old, self-proclaimed "libertarian"and "anarchist" "arguments" happening on social media. The puerile squabbling with one another about borders via insipid internet vitriol and played out memes on Facebook has gotten old. I'm becoming much more interested in my own life, and my immediate surroundings.

That said, I think this needs to be addressed again and again, to keep the focus of anarchism where it--indeed, by very definition!--must be: in the realm of (it's sad that I even need to type this) all things ANTI-STATE.

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PROBLEMS WITH PRO-CLOSED STATE BORDERS:

• Stealing is a violation of property and self-ownership. Border security programs are paid for via theft. Call me a "purist" all you like, but if you say that "theft is necessary to stop greater theft," you've missed the whole point. Ends don't justify means. Go be a statist. That is what they believe.

• There is NO SUCH THING as "public property." Ownership entails the right to exclusive use. I clearly do not have the "right" to go stand on "my section of the road" I paid for via taxation, or put up a tent in "my corner of the library." I don't own shit. I deserve to get my money back. If a thief steals my car, I am not entitled to someone else's diamonds which the thief also stole.

• Setting up an arbitrary group of individuals who arbitrarily decide who gets what and who has been "most damaged" by the state is a guarantee that private property will be violated. Indeed, setting up such a mini-state requires that force be used to give weight to whatever decisions this "committee" may come to. This plan is guaranteed to violate my property. If I have been heavily damaged by the state, and so given "shares" in some building, infrastructure, or stock, with no real choice in what I will receive or how I can use it, all we have is a new iteration of the state.

The Glaring Second Problem:

Pro-closed borders folks say that immigration should be "invite only," as immigrants use property, infrastructure, and social programs paid for by taxpayers.

They simultaneously support "free trade" and movement of goods which also use property, infrastructure, and social programs without the consent of each taxpayer.

NOT A VALID VOLUNTARYIST POSITION IN THE LEAST.

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BOTH OPEN AND CLOSED STATE BORDERS ARE ILLEGITIMATE, AS THEY BOTH NECESSARILY VIOLATE THE AXIOM OF INDIVIDUAL SELF-OWNERSHIP.

~KafkA

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Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)