Repeated violations of international law gradually normalize new practices

Evidence

If you do something for long enough, the world will accept it… . International law progresses through violations. We invented the targeted assassination thesis and we had to push it. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 534

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core question about how war norms mutate via practice rather than treaty; echoes the in reader’s notes about ‘twisted logic’ of impunity. — connects to: Everyday disciplinary micro-practices form the political underbelly of legal norms — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 347; Regulatory settlements lag behind the tactical redirections they punish — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 530; Slow legal process lets contested practices settle into ordinary acceptance — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 440
• SEED: Could anchor an essay on how legal gray zones get manufactured by policy pushed hard enough before codification.