Re:The $47T Death Sentence for Oil and Gas
by coldtea on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:32AM
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>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).
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).