Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU
by lordnacho on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:33PM
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You can't "pool sovereignty". This is a rhetorical trick designed to make people forget that they are not getting what they want.
When everyone agrees on something, you don't have to coerce them. So sure, their sovereignty is pooled.
As soon as someone disagrees on something, they have to be forced to accept the group's decision. Typically there's some sort of horse trade going on so that nobody gets everything they want, because there's several things on the table.
Yes collective action problems are real, but there's no reason the collective needs to be larger and larger and encompass all issues rather than just a subset. Let decisions be made at the local level by default, and the few things that need regional or global action, have a talk about that. If what you're bringing up is compelling, a lot of other countries will agree.
When everyone agrees on something, you don't have to coerce them. So sure, their sovereignty is pooled.
As soon as someone disagrees on something, they have to be forced to accept the group's decision. Typically there's some sort of horse trade going on so that nobody gets everything they want, because there's several things on the table.
Yes collective action problems are real, but there's no reason the collective needs to be larger and larger and encompass all issues rather than just a subset. Let decisions be made at the local level by default, and the few things that need regional or global action, have a talk about that. If what you're bringing up is compelling, a lot of other countries will agree.