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randomNumber7yesterday at 7:23 PM1 replyview on HN

Every law is just words unless there is a power that can enforce it.


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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 9:42 PM

But the UN DHR doesn’t seem to have been written as law. It was written as a declaration, in line with our own Declaration of Independence. It lists our ideals that need to be spelled into law. That lets it be airy and vague in a way laws cannot.

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