Sure, the eventual societal equilibrium of a world with instant AI-generated nude photography is that value of shame over nude photography inflates away to zero.
But that’s cold comfort to a teenage girl being mocked from the next lunch table today.
European societies have more fractious populations and a far more elite-mediated society than the U.S.
As a result, their union of states is both more fractious, in that it is a confederation and not a true federal government, and more elite-mediated, in that its function depends more upon the consensus among national elites than among national populations.
Put another way, it is more important that Paris agrees with Berlin than that Bautzen agrees with Lille.
Is that anti-democratic or just a more republican (small r) form of democracy?
But that’s cold comfort to a teenage girl being mocked from the next lunch table today.