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To: Tommaso who wrote (164508)	6/20/2005 3:10:31 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>> Hague Convention dates from well before the First World War... Yes. And the body of laws have grown considerably since. I only wanted to show one of the early examples of such. I am sure a little googling can show you plenty of examples at Yale's library. >> Enforceable laws require penalties and an authority to impose the penalty. This will open to an interesting debate for which unfortunately I do not have the time right now, though would like to pick it up at a later time. The short version I suspect will go like this: Part one, ethics and morality are independent of the law, and just as importantly, respect for the law and signed treaties should also be independent of existence of a stick that will punish their breach. Part two, given that many people and nations will not take law or ethics seriously in the absence of "enforcement", what can be done about changing the international world from the Wild Wild West to a civilized community? I'd love to see a debate on these issues from as many people as possible and will join in when I can. ST