> you can definitely capture part of your morals in law, like "don't kill"
ah! but you can't!
for instance, if someone was about to kill your partner - is it illegal to kill them before they succeed? yes. immoral..? grey.
the law is a rough cookie cutter shape that somewhat follows the edge of the fractal-like surface of morality. you can't capture morality in it's entirety into a legal document.
> at the time of the Apartheid, unlike during WWII, crimes against humanity were already prosecutable "anywhere on earth".
i don't know much about apartheid, but at the time, the SA gov't believed it to be legal (of course). the US didn't recognise it as wrong for a long time (late 80s?), and even then, that doesn't necessarily mean it was recognised as a crime against humanity. and it's hard to see from the article the dates of the specific actions that EFF are complaining about.
ah! but you can't!
for instance, if someone was about to kill your partner - is it illegal to kill them before they succeed? yes. immoral..? grey.
the law is a rough cookie cutter shape that somewhat follows the edge of the fractal-like surface of morality. you can't capture morality in it's entirety into a legal document.
> at the time of the Apartheid, unlike during WWII, crimes against humanity were already prosecutable "anywhere on earth".
i don't know much about apartheid, but at the time, the SA gov't believed it to be legal (of course). the US didn't recognise it as wrong for a long time (late 80s?), and even then, that doesn't necessarily mean it was recognised as a crime against humanity. and it's hard to see from the article the dates of the specific actions that EFF are complaining about.