
What's the deal with diplomatic immunity?
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The Second Concept, the One That Hammurabi Violates
The diplomat is sacrosanct. You can't violate the person of a diplomat as part of diplomatic community. If I kill yours, you're going to kill mine. So it's this kind of truce between nations that have diplomatic missions within one another That you don't touch our people. We don't touch your people. But a tenuous one,. back in the day, it sounds like it could go south and turn into you killed mine. I'll kill yours. It could. There was a Genghis Khan, actually, was an incredibly progressive ruler.
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