What are the strengths of an argument applying the utilitarian calculation to open borders? Is it a good argument? How could it be better? What are its main objections?
Utilitarianism is the total utility of anything to benefit more than just yourself. In this case, we will talking about universalist utilitarianism. It makes sense that having open borders benefit us more as a whole. Having a greater GDP would greatly benefit the our country and eventually may lead to affecting the world the author claims that our GDP may increase from anywhere of 50%-150%. Doubling the GDP may help our economy, society, and lead us to helping other countries. Not only would the GDP increase but the poverty rate may decrease. Being able to solve poverty would greatly benefit the country as it takes people out of the streets and possibly have a better life. The author write, “Even a 10% increase in global production means several trillion dollars of additional wealth creation every year.” This may give us a big advantage to not only us, but those who cross over and the rest of the world. A strength from the open border case is that it gives a better understanding of open borders. It shows the benefits it could bring to us as well what it could offer to other countries. Another strength is that it shows a more humane and moral way to deal with migration. It shows one way we can all benefit from this as well as giving realistic consequences. It could be a great argument if we didn’t think of population. Yes, opening the borders would be nice and actually beneficial. If we think about all the people willing to cross the borders for a better job, imagine how many will cross over. If we think about this in longer terms, our economy would go up but so will our population. If more and more people comer to America, we’d be too populated for what it is. We’d be financially stable but at what cost. Another issue is that if we lead towards citizenism, we’d have the issue with treating us before them situation. We’d help us citizens before we help the people that migrated here. That would be awful considering the fact that the people who migrate here are the ones helping the economy.
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