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A lot of people read this document as some kind of secular analogue to a religious text, and forget that it was the product of a diplomatic negotiation, and lik
by skissane 3y ago
A lot of people read this document as some kind of secular analogue to a religious text, and forget that it was the product of a diplomatic negotiation, and like many such documents, intentionally includes vague, ambiguous, and even contradictory clauses, so that each government voting for it can tell themselves that it means what they want it to mean
- pyuser583 3y agoIt was a compromise between American and Soviet negotiators. They didn’t agree on much, especially human rights.