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In reply to the discussion: Hamas' brutality is unpardonable [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)and the only remedy for a determined aggressor is the action made illegal.
If no one was going to break them there would be no need to make them.
The law also would have the noticeable bug of not popping up a forcefield to stop the illegal missile about to blow us up or slow down the illegal tanks rolling over the paper it is written on.
Desirable but functionally irrational. Laws are not spells, making them has no power by itself, they must be honored, executed, observed, and enforced.
Imagine is a lovely song and sentiment but by imagining it frames the endgame as a possibility without any path from open your eyes and see to all the people living as one.
The imaging away naked aggression and/or just wanting to watch the world burn alone can only lead to heart ache and great suffering before we even touch on any other contributing factors that aren't going to be wished away.
What you hope for is beyond law making. You want to change human nature with the stroke of a pen, that isn't possible.