Not worthless. But it certainly doesn't have the power of law.
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
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International ~~law~~ strongly worded email
ISDS is actually above the law sooooooooooooooooooooooo
Edit: see my youtube video i replied to OP with, its depressing s**t.
To all the people complaining about toothless international law:
To become binding, law needs law enforcement. Which, in the case of international law, would mean an international police force that has jurisdiction over all the world's governments, and a mandate to arrest even heads of states if they are suspected of committing a crime.
For that, they'd need sufficient military power to beat any nation's armies (which would definitely be deployed to protect the head of state).
So basically, every time a nation's leader is suspected of committing a crime against international law (by whom?), a war starts.
Is that really what you want?
Or, hear me out... I personally fly out to the asteroid belt, build a space station inside the asteroid Vesta manufacturing Rods from God, and periodically fling them at the military installations and centers of government of nations that make me angry. Maybe I even give my operation a pretentious name, like "Damocles Initiative" or "Office of Government Accountability."
Honestly, I see no way this could go wrong. Who watches the watchers? I do.
Or an agreement that sets everyone else against you if you violate it.
Do you want international law to do something instead of being a worthless book that everyone ignores?
yes
If we could assume that said international forces were moral and behaved well, fuck yes that's what I would want.
There needn't be a war everytime. The international forces would simply let the country know that they want person X or X, Y and Z and that if they don't get to, then there'd be war. And all they need to do is give up a person who's probably actually broken international laws, which aren't usually minor ones.
Given that I've assumed the morality and good behaviour of this force, then it should be no problem.
And at that point, there wouldn't be a need for national armies, if there was an international force that was wholly good and did have the capacity to beat any one other militaries.
There needn’t be a war everytime. The international forces would simply let the country know that they want person X or X, Y and Z and that if they don’t get to, then there’d be war. And all they need to do is give up a person who’s probably actually broken international laws, which aren’t usually minor ones.
That worked so well in Afghanistan!
Uh, we're talking about a hypothetical scenario in which theres already enough international cooperation that there exist an actually powerful international police force strong enough to take on any military.
That would imply such a high level of international cooperation, that most countries would know fighting against the force would be like some crack addict trying to fight the cops.
A completely hypothetical situation which doesn't reflect real life politics.
Where the rules are made up, and treaties don't matter
ever heard of wto?