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Movement rule (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 days ago by SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.world

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

“Good fences make good neighbors”. Let’s look at it another way. Does that freedom of movement include encroaching on your home and setting up a tent in your yard? (Or other analogous situation depending on your living arrangement).

If you said “no”, then you believe in the ability to have a secure and defined space. A country is just a pooled space of a larger community that have collectively decided to have a secure and defined space.

I think the bigger issue stems from the inequality and access within reason.

[–] bss03 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good fences make good neighbors

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/150774/robert-frost-mending-wall :

Because the neighbor gets the last word, it’s possible to read “Good fences make good neighbors” as the poem’s straightforward message. A more complex reading, alert to Frost’s ironic style, would side firmly with the speaker. In this view, the speaker nurses a healthy suspicion of barriers that serve no clear purpose; he is open to communication and new ideas, wary of anything that arbitrarily divides people

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I didn't realize there were some people out there saying, "Good fences make good neighbors" unironically until today. Like the whole poem is the narrator talking about how he isn't so sure if it's true and his neighbor just repeating it. I mean, damn, it's not even a subtext. Like this excerpt pretty heavy handedly says that maybe you shouldn't build an arbitrary wall:

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder

If I could put a notion in his head:

‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it

Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offense.

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