thread: 2009-07-13 : How About Some Q and A
On 2009-07-25, Christian Griffen wrote:
Except that:
a) it's more like an international treaty, because there's no enforcement agency, which means that the term "remains binding" is dependent on whether the people involved continue to feel bound; and
b) there's no IS in actuality; it's a hypothetical construct like "societal norms" or "cultural values." There's only a bunch of people and what they say and think and do, so we shouldn't treat the IS as something that has actual content independently of what the individuals think and say and do.
