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Every law is just words unless there is a power that can enforce it.
by randomNumber7 6mo ago
Every law is just words unless there is a power that can enforce it.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo agoBut the UN DHR doesn’t seem to have been written as law. It was written as a declaration, in line with our own Declaration of Independence. It lists our ideals that need to be spelled into law. That lets it be airy and vague in a way laws cannot.
- randomNumber7 6mo agoHow does this relate to my comment?
- JumpCrisscross 6mo agoIt isn’t “every law.” It’s not written to be directly operationalised. You’re comparing a declaration of values to operational law; they’re words in different ways and contexts.
- randomNumber7 6mo agoIs a "declaration of values" more than words if there is no power that is willing to enforce it?
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> Is a "declaration of values" more than words if there is no power that is willing to enforce it? Yes. Nobody directly enforces the policy papers or the Declaration of Independence. That doesn’t mean they don’t have corporeal value. In part, due to being translated into laws.