Quote Originally Posted by AmericanPride View Post
Then I have to ask: what's the point of a law if it fails to protect the weak?
and I'll point out that most laws are not designed to protect the weak, they are intended to preserve and enhance the power of the state and its nominal elites. Those few laws that do attempt to protect the weak are at best ineffective and very spottily applied. As Charles Dickens said about 170 years ago:

“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience."
I think the Austrians demonstrated this principle under similar circumstances to great effect in 1914.
Not really. In fact, all 1914 shows is that then, so-called International Law was a farce. A farce with no force.

It still is.