> Well, the EU, and Germany, have been threatening and punishing any member state that voted the "wrong way"
Works as designed, then.
What's the point of having a system of shared values if one member goes "Hey, let's, umm, kill all the left-handed people!" and your system can't defend itself against such actors?
What if those actors were paid by an entity determined to destroy your system by testing the extreme edge cases of your shared values?
Let's say Russia decides to troll your system by paying for staged Koran burnings in Sweden [1].
Now, a debate ensues about the tradeoff between freedom of speech/expression, and the value of not hurting people's religious feelings.
If your system gets weaker by such attacks, you need to strengthen the system by excluding or restricting malicious actors.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/27/burning-of-qur...
Works as designed, then.
What's the point of having a system of shared values if one member goes "Hey, let's, umm, kill all the left-handed people!" and your system can't defend itself against such actors?
What if those actors were paid by an entity determined to destroy your system by testing the extreme edge cases of your shared values?
Let's say Russia decides to troll your system by paying for staged Koran burnings in Sweden [1]. Now, a debate ensues about the tradeoff between freedom of speech/expression, and the value of not hurting people's religious feelings.
If your system gets weaker by such attacks, you need to strengthen the system by excluding or restricting malicious actors.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/27/burning-of-qur...