It's Like Ping-Pong of the Mind!
OJ Co-Blogger Duncan Hollis Responds to VC Co-Blogger Eric Posner on the question of classes in public international law. (I will try to find a moment to weigh in on this, but I'm trying to make the final copy edits to my Targeted Killing chapter, finish my long-suffering UN-US relations manuscript, and help my daughter paint her room a tasteful eggshell blue while my Beloved Wife is in Guatemala over the weekend.) I'm also going to add, apropos of nothing in particular, that while I like the title of Eric's book, The Perils of Global Legalism, I probably would have named it, Parlous Global Legalism. I've always wanted to have an academic title with "Parlous" in it.
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Inquiring minds want to know.
For that matter, can targeted killing be tasteful as well?
Maybe if you are a cannibal.
as for targeted killing, yes it can be done tastefully but that runs the risk of defeating the purpose, if a targeting killing is done too tastefully it will encourage others to commit acts which would make them targets for tasteful targeted killing. targeted killings should be overdone and gaudy so that few people would want to be the recipient on one (and the world is better off without people with that kind of taste).
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