The status quo is grim. The very idea that the rights of individuals (including the very basic right to life) are outweighed by political considerations and attempts to say the law in way that doesn’t cause inconvenience to the perpetrator and its allies, poisons the heart.

The current way in which international law is arranged is deeply disturbing not only because of the ineffectiveness of its institutional arrangements when great powers interests are at stake, but also in the way it discriminated between individuals when their rights are at stake (e.g, Ukraine- Gaza). We need a better system that doesn’t treat (certain) humans as numbers/ mass/ statistics, or maybe we just deserve this system.