Yes, but that s not the prime consideration. The prime consideration is survival, survival as a scientific-technological society. The only alternative action to not acting alone will result in chaos. Technocracy s concepts are unique. To accept them without study is nonsense.
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Some are even arrested and stand trial. That scenario may not seem far-fetched now that the United Nations is in the process of establishing a permanent international criminal court aimed at punishing those responsible for actions deemed to be war crimes or crimes against humanity. While offering millions to track down war crimes suspects in the Balkans, the United States is trying to carve out a blanket exemption protecting American soldiers from being hunted down and prosecuted by the new U.N. court. State Department lawyers are beginning the effort today at the United Nations. Human rights experts fear the U. S. example will encourage other countries, like Iraq, to follow suit and undercut the United Nations' campaign against war crimes.