>Animals don't care and just move where ever they want to.
A very very high fraction of animals are territorial and will fight to the death over land claims. You can see this in your back yard if you have squirrels or bird nests.
>But just hypothetically, if I want to grab a bike, ride to some isolated forest in France, build a cabin and live the hermit life, I can not to that.
This is actually a result of fairness on the part of the French government - you are a "nice person" and presumably would not ruin the environment for anybody else if you did that, but if it were legal to show up and make houses in French forests it would only be a matter of time before unscrupulous individuals began to show up and clear-cut the forest, overtaxing it and turning it into an unregulated slum city. Indeed if everyone were nice there would be no need for laws or governments at all.
This is obviously correct but also worth noting there is a middle ground. As evidenced by freedom of movement schemes within ASEAN, EU etc. So approaching the ideal of the OP but in a pragmatic way.
Well, Schengen grants me freedom of movement to roam to France and live there! So that middle ground does exist.
We are just slowly working toward more homogeneous soceties among which freedom of movement can be allowed - but currently, if we eliminate all borders tomorrow, it would be quite chaotic. What we first need to address are the struggles that make millions of people want to leave their home country, so they can be happy there, and there is no mass exodus from anywhere.
Yes I'm not that naive to not realize there are very good reasons the world works this way :). But I think its good to sometimes think about the big picture, how we ended up with these structures in place, and how we can improve for future generations - or at the very least try not go backwards.
Why cant i just walk into someone else cabin and say its mine - i find the concept of ownership ridiculous. So what you built it? You left it half an hour ago to collect wood- i assume you want to build another one and are sick of this one.
What do you mean, permits and claims? Calling the police?
This is all very regressive talk i hear here.
Turns out there are two sorts of Freedom - the good one (mine) Freedom and the bad one (others/your) Freedom.
I will rage and fight for the good freedom, while demanding for someone else having his good freedom and parts of mine good freedom to limit your good freedom.
A very very high fraction of animals are territorial and will fight to the death over land claims. You can see this in your back yard if you have squirrels or bird nests.
>But just hypothetically, if I want to grab a bike, ride to some isolated forest in France, build a cabin and live the hermit life, I can not to that.
This is actually a result of fairness on the part of the French government - you are a "nice person" and presumably would not ruin the environment for anybody else if you did that, but if it were legal to show up and make houses in French forests it would only be a matter of time before unscrupulous individuals began to show up and clear-cut the forest, overtaxing it and turning it into an unregulated slum city. Indeed if everyone were nice there would be no need for laws or governments at all.