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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (164506)6/20/2005 2:17:11 PM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>>>There is a large body of international law aimed to prevent the victor to write the laws of the conquered and plunder them. <<

That Hague Convention dates from well before the First World War. By exacting reparations after that war, France and England stripped much of the capital from Germany. As Thomas Mann wrote, "The Germans, having been robbed, became robbers themselves." When the Germans occupied France in the Second World War, they made the laws.

Enforceable laws require penalties and an authority to impose the penalty.

Incidentally, violations of etiquette can have rather serious consequences in an individual person's life, as I found out years ago after doing a Mexican Hat Dance on a table at the Radcliffe Graduate Center.
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