Iwamotoan Humanitarian Law Simulacrum

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Do not tell me first what the rules should be — tell me what international law, as it actually stands today, permits and prohibits. Ethics and law are not the same question, and confusing them helps no one. Then we face the harder matter: the gap between what the law permits and what it ought to permit may itself be the real danger. Which weapon, which act, shall we test against the law?