I agree with you, I just mean it’s hard for us to enforce it when we are being blocked by powers like the US etc.

Thanks, fantastic article, nice to get the BBC perspective on this as I wonder sometimes about The Irawaddy’s possibly being a bit optimistic.

This is the crux of it:

The ICC has 124 state parties, while the United Nations has 193 member states. This disparity makes clear the gap between what the ICC seeks to achieve – namely, universal accountability for international crimes – and what it can practically achieve when it lacks the support of implicated or nonaligned countries.

I guess that’s how gen Z think of him!

Gravel pit of doom.

The billions of people who depend on seafood are already in dire straits with richer nations stealing coastal fish from poorer nations.

Kbin thumbnail bug strikes again, this article has a thumbnail of that US dog killer politician pouting. Makes it look like she’s angry she can’t kill bigger fish.

And you can also donate directly to UNHRA since some western countries have defunded it.

What’s the relevance?

If a company signs a public pledge and then breaks it, that’s worth knowing about.

I agree the variety in humans means we have a small percentage who differ.

What I’m objecting to is the normalization of abberant behaviour as “oh that’s just something we do.” It’s not something most of us do.

When someone comes along like Jimmy Saville people don’t say oh, large scale pedophilia is just human nature.

We quite rightly view it as abberant and our focus is on seeking to put a stop to it. The same thing should happen with things like genocide and ethnic cleansing.

If it’s in our “nature” how is it that the vast majority of us are not doing it?

If we look at early human societies they were mostly relatively egalitarian and peaceful. The Hobbesian view of humanity is very useful to make you accept the unacceptable.

If it had happened like in the 1980s or something it would have been forgiveable but it was like 2006, at that point we all already knew climate change was real.

I never really forgave them for the original ManBearPig climat change denialism.

Banks says the ringing in her ears did not completely disappear, but now it’s barely noticeable on most days.

“It’s kind of like if I lived near a waterfall and the waterfall was constantly going,” she says. Over time, the waterfall sound fades out of consciousness.

This is where analogies break down… that same “short guy” locked most of his next door neighbours in their basement.

And he’s currently trying to distract everyone’s attention from mounting evidence that he’s a serial killer.

Yeah it’s nottheonion material.

The problems with Ethiopia’s rail system and financing are well-known though, you can find articles about it right accross the political spectrum.

Disagreeing with this article’s conclusions about it would be valid, but there’s no point trying to pretend the facts listed are not facts.

They’re a country that’s known to use torture and secret courts. They still have Guantanamo which is one big human rights violation.

That would be my concern.

Exactly. NGOs are pointing out that aid drops etc are not going to fix this, once famine hits you need a framework of relief workers, and the situation is far away from being able to have that.

Oh well, can’t win em all. Have a good week!