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Human Rights are in Decline Around the World. What can be Done About it?

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Is There a Sovereignty?

There are rules and regulations for how governments ought to be conducting themselves. But if they are wilfully ignored, or you have these notions of sovereignty thrown up, then we will a sovereignty connected to some notion of prestige. I mean, look, it's not all like that. Take for example, national civilized aviation or organization. When approved by icao, these regulations are implementable around the world, hard law, instantaneously. They are not debated in the us Congress. Why? Because no one wants to step on to a plane that then crashes into another plane, right? So we accept it. Now, the world is imperilled by climate change. Why do we have to

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