By saying the EU is a stupid idea, you're attacking things that are core to the best experiences of my life, which is why I said I'd have nothing more to do with you.
Specifically, I live, work and travel in many different European countries, none of which are the country of my birth; and so too does my (German) girlfriend. The way of life I've experienced would not be possible without the EU or something very like it. Your opinion, as expressed, is in opposition to my way of life. That's the source of the vehemence of my opposition.
(Hopefully you'll note that I am neither a state nor a large corporation, yet I've benefited in many different ways.)
(This nationalistic notion that nations are important, that they should look after their own above others, I think is responsible for many evils in history, some very recent. I think humanistic cosmopolitanism is far better than "us for ourselves" ideologies.)
Specifically, I live, work and travel in many different European countries, none of which are the country of my birth; and so too does my (German) girlfriend. The way of life I've experienced would not be possible without the EU or something very like it. Your opinion, as expressed, is in opposition to my way of life. That's the source of the vehemence of my opposition.
(Hopefully you'll note that I am neither a state nor a large corporation, yet I've benefited in many different ways.)
(This nationalistic notion that nations are important, that they should look after their own above others, I think is responsible for many evils in history, some very recent. I think humanistic cosmopolitanism is far better than "us for ourselves" ideologies.)