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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
Then why recognize the status of any treaty at all? That's a position that makes absolutely no sense.
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By recognize you mean Ratify?
We ratify treaties because our system of government requires it. They are not binding until we do that.
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You're going to ignore a treaty because there's a chance that someone else would be an a-hole and ignore it. Don't you see that makes us the a-hole?
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No, I'm going to ignore a treaty because I don't feel we should be accountable for not granting a confessed child murderer/rapist a privilege that we didn't know he was entitled to under a 40 year old treaty that we never ratified. Other nations will either ignore the treaty or abide by it irregardless of our actions.
Are you claiming that other signatories will ignore their own treaty responsibilities because of this?