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> Being subordinate didn't work for the Nuremberg

It didn't work for those convicted in the Nuremberg trials because the Nazis lost. Had the Third Reich persisted with a truce, do you really think they would have been charged, convicted, and sentenced?

Legal liability gets pretty hazy when applying it in a non-sovereign arenas (i.e. international matters). Yes, there are treaties [0], but what are treaties without enforcement?

> Do you have to trust them for anything?

People are welcome to move to areas where government interaction is less or non-existent. They generally choose not to. Largely, because the economies in places like that suck, because it's hard to employ capital in an anarchist, solely-"might makes right" environment.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_war#International_tr...



> Had the Third Reich persisted with a truce, do you really think they would have been charged, convicted, and sentenced?

Pre Nuremberg expectations on soldiers were blind obedience nazi or not. Nuremberg set the expectation on soldiers from then on. WWII changed that.

It could not happen due to their own ideology. It did not allowed for lasting compromise which everyone else knew. Third Reich would not prosecuted those people, because by their ethical standards they were doing right thing.

Then again, Pablo Escobar believed he is cool guy by own standards too.


> WWII changed that

Bullshit. Who was prosecuted for the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo?

How many of the German rocketry experts scooped up during Paperclip were convicted?

How many US military members have been delivered to the ICJ?


> Bullshit. Who was prosecuted for the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo?

Neither of these is comparable for what Germans did and you know it.

> How many US military members have been delivered to the ICJ?

US did not signed membership.


> Neither of these is comparable for what Germans did and you know it.

A couple tens of thousands of dead civilians seems pretty serious to me.

By your metric, how many dead civilians are sufficient to warrant prosecution?

> US did not signed membership.

The US did sign membership, and then withdrew in 1986 because it didn't want to be bound by rulings.


I don't know any areas you're describing.

I also conjecture that once you turn a non-governed area into an El Dorado, "might makes right" will push it right back into a government. I don't feel a regular person has any choice if they want to thrive but to surrender themselves to some government regardless of trust.




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