@blotosmetek
Precisely so. And I’ve learned it the hard way - by watching videos of hundreds of executions of Ukrainian soldiers by Russians which went entirely unpunished by any international law or whatever.
Then one Polish humanitarian law expert on Twitter explained what the idea of (humanitarian) “convention” actually means - a mutual contract-like agreement, not an universal law like law of gravity. Two warring parties simply agree between themselves they won’t do certain things, but there’s nothing but this voluntary agreement to that. There’s no world police to enforce compliance.
I think we had been living so deeply immersed in the democratic system for decades that we internalised it completely but also completely forgotten that democracy is not the only way of organising societies in the world. And in quantitive terms is certainly not the most popular.
There’s a certain dose of both arrogance and naivety in the belief that #democracy is so superior (and I believe it is) that everyone will dream of converting into one. We grew so blind that we started voluntarily ignoring existence of cultures that outright reject the concept of universal law, rule of law, human rights, equality etc because they are driven by completely different values - tribal, religiou or simply criminal ones. And we learned to pretend that these cultures don’t look at democracies as a model role but as easy prey.
In short, we convinced ourselves we live among Bambis and pigeons while closing our eyes on all the crocodiles and pretending they don’t exist, and even if the do, all they dream about is becoming Bambis. Talking Bambi language to a crocodile never ends well.
@rberger @anarchy79
