That's like asking "how is the police going to stop illegal gun ownership without using guns?".

Who said you can't use oil when bombing to enforce no-oil use, if you need to?

Humans are surely no dumb computers taking all instructions literally, and can differentiate between one use (to enforce a rule) of oil, vs another (the industrial, transport, etc use you want to ban).

> Who said you can't use oil when bombing to enforce no-oil use, if you need to?

Who can say that you can't use oil that way? Whoever's going to bomb you for using oil. (Or did you assume that you were always going to be the enforcer, and never the enforced-upon?)

"We get to use oil for when we think we should, but we'll bomb you if you use it" sure smells like hypocrisy to me.

>Who can say that you can't use oil that way? Whoever's going to bomb you for using oil. (Or did you assume that you were always going to be the enforcer, and never the enforced-upon?)

I didn't make any such assumptions: just that someone can enforce no-use-of-oil upon others.

And it doesn't have to be hypocritical either. To answer your other protest:

>"We get to use oil for when we think we should, but we'll bomb you if you use it" sure smells like hypocrisy to me.

Only in the same sense (and I already gave a similar example), locking people up against their will is bad and punishable, but not when the police does it.

If the enforcer only uses oil to enforce no regular oil use, then they're totally non hypocritical.

Besides the whole question is contrived, in the way the Liar's paradox is. "Yeah, what I just said about always lying is meta and excluded from my lying: I only lie when I say non-meta statements" is enough for this case...

The police have the authority to be the police. But you, who appointed you to be the judge of others? Or who appointed your country to be the judge of other countries?

>But you, who appointed you to be the judge of others?

I didn't suggest I personally do it, and I don't have the means anyway.

>Or who appointed your country to be the judge of other countries?

Notice how I didn't mention a particular country. Much less mine.

First, obviously, if there was a single country that wanted to do it, and if it had the might, nobody had to appoint them.

But it could be equally well that an extended alliance, or the UN itself, could form a force to do the policing.

The police didn't start out having authority either. Some nation state by its might (or the good will of another) gained sovereignty, formed a police force, and had some elites write the laws and give it authority. Then they allowed the populace to periodically vote, but with the police and the overall system already in place (and not allowed to be contested in its foundations unless another force -eg a rebellion- replaces it with might).