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The clear demarcation of property boundaries can help avoid misunderstandings between neighbors. But fences are meant to protect private-property rights.

When a jingoistic politician convinces an easily led portion of the population to treat an entire country as private property that must be protected from foreigners (who have with ways different from their own), the result is demands for a wall. These people who, by accident of birth, live in the “protected” country, then start demanding that anyone born elsewhere be treated as sub-human riffraff that must be kept out (for the good of the economy, and, of course, to protect the women and children).

To this segment of the population, walls seem like the perfect solution to what those same people perceive as a problem. Cost, wildlife migration, basic human rights, and the waste of resources, are seemingly entirely disregarded by this subset of the population.

They do, however, have plentiful company in their opinions, both now and historically.

Walls have been used by countries for millennia.

The most famous is the Great Wall of China, which was built in many stages, and was modified in various ways for about 2000 years.

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But it was not the first fortification wall used by a society. The first, that we know of, was built in the 21st century BC. It was built by the Sumerians, and worked, for a brief time (a few years).

Over the intervening 4000(ish) years, there have been many attempts to keep people out of geographic regions using walls. Perhaps one of the most successful efforts was the Long Walls of Athens.

Walls that were guarded adequately, were hard to scale, rupture, or walk around, and were kept in good repair, were sometimes reasonably successful.

The real question for the perceived problems of today's societies, is whether ancient fortification methods are a good choice given the staggering rate of advances in technology over the past 50 (or so) years. The answer is, without question, “no”.

Drone technology is relatively new, and is making rapid advances. Drones that can carry roughly 250 pounds are already being manufactured and sold. They are scheduled for use in Dubai to shuttle people over congested areas. These vehicles are new and somewhat expensive now, but this will change. Costs will come down, and their use will be limited only by safety concerns.

It seems very clear that no rational person or society would invest billions of dollars in creating a barrier that can easily be defeated by currently available transport systems that are certain to become cheaper and more easily accessible.