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@dlakelan @ZachWeinersmith International law is a lot more than the international criminal court, but if that's the only metric you're using to judge it, yeah it's basically a failure. 2 comments
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Almost all law is failure (or, if you're a powerful and rich person, it's a success). To the extent that the law benefits most people, Anarchists would do it anyway. to the extent that the police are needed to come in and smash skulls and shoot people it's because the law is oppression.
I used to think law was a great thing, and "government of laws not of men" was a real ideal. Reading James Scott, and David Graeber and such changed that view entirely.