The idea of a universal court is terrifying. The idea that everyone else should be coerced into being like us is fundamentally self-grandiose and arrogant and is just the latest Western attempt to dominate every corner of the globe.

We have no problem embracing the importance of diversity when it comes to race and sex, but apparently ideological diversity with regard to what it means to be human is something to be eradicated. We now look back at hundreds of years of Western imperialism with disdain, but today we send 'human rights NGOs' to 'developing countries' instead of 'Christian missionaries' to 'pagans' -- nothing has changed; we still think we know best and we still demand submission to our vision.

I am glad to live in a Western society, but there are billions who are glad they do not live in a Western society. It is time that we stop trying to bully them into submitting to our 'leadership', and shaming those societies for opting out of the ICC is completely unacceptable.