The only reason the tribunal can do any of its work is not through force but through agreement that it can -- agreement that parties harboring the accused can rescind at any time.
At the cost of great political damage. They work because we've agreed they should, just like civilization at its very fundamental level. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. It's the natural evolution of culture. We start bashing each other with clubs until we decide we'd rather work together and have shared expectations, then our tribes conquer each other until we decide to work together, then our states conquer each other until we decide to work together, etc.
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Date: 26/5/11 23:28 (UTC)At the cost of great political damage. They work because we've agreed they should, just like civilization at its very fundamental level. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. It's the natural evolution of culture. We start bashing each other with clubs until we decide we'd rather work together and have shared expectations, then our tribes conquer each other until we decide to work together, then our states conquer each other until we decide to work together, etc.