Quote from: K-Dog on Jan 11, 2024, 03:36 PMAccountability begins now.

How does accountability progress though?

Take smoking for instance.  How were the tobacco companies held accountable for all the cancer victims?  Pay some fines, back to BAU.  How was anybody held accountable for Cambodian bombing?  How was the Holy Roman Catholic Church held accountable for the Inquisition? How were the Cossacks held accountable for the Pogroms?  Who was held accountable for the genocide of the original inhabitants of Turtle Island?

There is never accountability for death at the grand scale.  You can lay blame, for instance blame the Nazis for WWII, but you can't hold the Germans accountable for electing Hitler.  Who are you going to hold accountable for the refugee crisis?  Who would you punish and how?

Nobody will ever be held accountable for Palestinian genocide.  It may touch off a more widespread hot war in the region, dragging in the Iranians and the Saudis in which case there will be a lot of retaliatory bombing of Israel, but that doesn't make them accountable, it just evens out the death count if it happens.

The total population of Gaza is 590,000.  Population of Tel Aviv 435,000.  Call it 1M people all together. That is 1/8000th of the world population, 0.0125%.  If you wiped them all out, it's a tiny fraction of the number of dead people coming down the pipe.  Nobody will be held accountable for the 7 Billion that follow them either.



RE

You are right.  I was referring to Karf's point about the timeline of ICJ justice. And what am I trying to say.  It turns out,

QuoteJustice delayed is justice denied

is a legal maxim.  Somebody thunk it out before I did.

Implication being, and consistent with what you wrote.  We live in an unjust world.  Justice is a function of time and place.  If there is no desire for justice, none will be found.  Justice is man made.

Justice is the foundation of all other virtues. It is the principle that governs our relationships with others and ensures that we treat them with respect and compassion. Justice requires that we treat others as we would like to be treated, with fairness and equality.

Justice is the natural order, but many people it seems, prefer an unnatural order.

Very well said, both of you. It's a big mess. As always.

BAU will proceed, but there will be a lot of pressure to start relinquishing the stranglehold capitalism has had on us. The competition for resources by the big money holders are conducting this charade we are dancing to. There are many styles of dance. Maybe there will be a new dance that goes viral, and resembles the dance of Kali. We all learn the dance and put our video's in the cloud. Can you imagine the amount of time and money we are spending on cyber protection?

Israel's defense of Genocide and a conditional ceasefire was just on. I almost fell asleep through one guys speech. Either way this hearing turns out, the goose is loose in the barnyard.