I'm sympathetic to the sentiment, but it's unworkable in our anarchic system of nation-states, where there is no authority binding states to any system of justi

I'm sympathetic to the sentiment, but it's unworkable in our anarchic system of nation-states, where there is no authority binding states to any system of justice. There is no international court to appeal to for surveillance warrants. There is no international police force that will quash bad behavior. As Thucydides observed: "Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." This isn't a statement of how things ought to be, but how they are. Tie your hands at your own peril, for those who gain at your expense might not be so generous.