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> If everyone agreed to arbitrate world matters in the ICC, why even have militaries?

That's… kind of the point? To not have to kill and destroy each other to settle disputes.

Yeah sounds great. But it’s hopelessly naive. As soon as someone disagrees, if they have more real power than the ICC, then its enforcement becomes ineffective. You can’t solve disagreements by agreeing to disagree.

International law is inherently more of a social contract than an actual law. That doesn't make it useless because it does have a real effect on how countries behave, but it does mean that enforcement looks more like getting ostracized than it looks like law enforcement.

> International law is inherently more of a social contract than an actual law.

Isn't actual law a social contract aswell?

Why have municipal laws? Everyone can just carry around an AK-47 and decide what's right and wrong for them

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