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“What we are facing now is a person whose crime dwarfs all of the crimes ever committed in human history. We were unable to find a single law applicable to his
by perfunctory 7y ago
“What we are facing now is a person whose crime dwarfs all of the crimes ever committed in human history. We were unable to find a single law applicable to his crime. So we recommend that the crime of Extinction of Life on Earth be added to international law, and that Rey Diaz be tried under it.”
— Cixin Liu, The Dark Forest
- rebuilder 7y agoRetroactive legislation is usually frowned upon or outright banned in many jurisdictions.
- GabrielMtn 7y agoCriminal negligence then? Sedition? They internally predicted catastrophic damage to society. It is obscene.
- patientplatypus 7y agoI believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity is literally true in this case.
- ausbah 7y agoFor some context, in the novel Rey Diaz tried to hold back a alien invasion by threatening to blow the whole solar system into the sun with nuclear weapons.