Remove one country

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

What do you mean by "remove a country"?

What, to begin with, is a "country"?

It isn't the land, because land is land. It isn't the people, because people are people. It isn't the borders, because borders are imaginary. Is it the culture? The mores? The politicians?

Countries don't exist. They are made-up notions about people living on land, delimited by artificial, imaginary borders and governed by more or less utterly shithead politicians who more or less thoroughly sell out their power to the highest bidder.

So this leads me to my answer: I would remove the notion of "country" itself, its word from the dictionary. That's the country I'd remove.

[–]Zahn 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Whew Lad! It's time to put the bong down.

A country is made up of a culture and people with historically shared major belief systems. While some of those line/borders are technically arbitrary, they are still entirely legal...and legal defined as whose military has the most or biggest guns.

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A country is made-up notion comprised of the actual things called: A people, a culture, a history, land, borders, and a political system.

But it still doesn't have an independent existence. The parts exist, but the whole is just using a single word to designate the parts as a group.