[extropy-chat] Re: Iraq and legality again

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Brian Lee <brian_a_lee at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I think it's just international law which is "mythical and magical".
> You can't have law unless it is formed by a sovereign entity and
> enforced. What we currently have is like contract law. And you can't
> break contracts if they were never mutually agreed upon.

Contract law is hardly "mythical and magical", it is properly the only
morally justifiable form of law beyond the common natural law, because
it is entirely consensual. I'd rather be judged by international law
than by the fascist Roman civil law now known as statute and regulation
any day of the week.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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