Widowed Land wrote:Maowi wrote: 'Ambasssador, by following this line of reasoning you are rendering that clause useless. You're effectively saying that nations who want to abide by it can do so; and those who don't can set an impossibly high standard of behaviour, in essence eliminating all chances of a prisoner behaving in that way. You'd be far better off recommending nations to set rewards for good behaviour than plugging in a useless, restrictively specific mandate.'
"I expected this kind of response. Let me explain that nations cannot escape this clause, they HAVE to put some kind of bar of approval, but it also must be doable. Nobody will ask of prisoners to learn how to fly or something like that. Examples that are mentioned in the draft are doable requests, it is up to nations how many requests will they make to prisoners and how extended the good behavior must be for it to be rewarded."
“The idea of the behaviour necessarily being ‘doable’ is not mentioned in the clause, so there is nothing wrong, compliantly speaking, with a nation setting a standard of behaviour that, while technically possible, is in practical terms almost impossible to achieve in reality.”