Some of my friends respond to this charge by pointing out that even if the enforcement provisions of the treaty are ineffective, the treaty will impose new international norms for behavior.
Sometimes when I talk about the erosion of privacy, I suggest that always being watched forces us to conform to expected societal norms, lest our bad behavior be judged.
And while Eli may be correct that people who produce a lot of external value get rewarded in the long run, it would help if the economics field did a better job of rewarding positive externality generating behavior and of explicitly arguing for optimal social norms.
In writings by Mr. Barda about the drafting process and debates within the drafting team, one theme was the idea that Indonesian society should be religious in nature, and that religious norms should be allowed "to socially engineer people's behavior through this piece of legislation, " said Indri D.