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And you want the EU to treat Switzerland like an EU country, even though they are manifestly (and deliberately) not equal. Everyone fails!
by jacalata 14y ago
And you want the EU to treat Switzerland like an EU country, even though they are manifestly (and deliberately) not equal. Everyone fails!
- Kudzu_Bob 14y agoBy what metric are they unequal? Crime rates? Economic output? Level of corruption? Degree of political freedom? What? You cannot name a single way in which Switzerland is not the equal, and often the superior, of the countries that comprise the European Union. It even has the highest per capita rate of Nobel Prize winners On the other hand, Turkey is known for Islamic fundamentalism, ethnic wars, military coups, violence against women, and a level of intellectual accomplishment that ranks somewhere between D+ and C-.
- Gormo 14y ago> By what metric are they unequal? Crime rates? Economic output? Level of corruption? Degree of political freedom? What? Political culture, economic customs and practices, actual membership in the European Union...
- jacalata 14y agothanks. I hadn't specified since I thought the point of difference was so blindingly obvious in context, but I guess not to everyone.
- Kudzu_Bob 14y agoYou forgot to add, "and not being handcuffed to a dead man."
- jacalata 14y agoso...you think the EU is a bad thing (I assume that's the dead man you are talking about), and Switzerland made the right decision to not tie themselves to it, but those countries that did decide to join it should give Switzerland all the benefits that would accrue from being a member while allowing them to avoid any possible negative outcomes, because Switzerland is just so awesome. That's an interesting perspective.
- Kudzu_Bob 14y agoLong after the EU has succumbed to gigantism the Swiss will still be around. To believe that the sick should shun the healthy is an inversion of reality.