If we have secrets that we want to keep, why does it matter to which state they are leaked? No matter to whom they are directly leaked, they might indirectly reach any other state. Any state might be hostile to us or an enemy or ours now or in the near future whether we realise this now or not.
I consent to the digital storing of some of my private information with, for instance, a particular bank. I trust them because, unlike the state, they have a strong commercial motive to protect and reasonable ability to do so. I do not trust to state to similarly protect all my private information.
Do states have a ‘right’ to exist in the same sense that, if they do, people do? It is not self-evident that they do. Even if, when alive, we have a right to exist, it does not follow that, prior to our existence, we had a right to be born.
A human being shot another human being and some people are primarily concerned about the politics of the victim and the killer. What sense does that make?
Leadership elections in political parties should be stitch-ups. States should be run as democracies but it does not follow that all the other institutions, including political parties should be democratically run.
The rationale for using declarations of so-called 'human rights' as the basis of legislation is flawed even if some of the laws that have been derived thereby are sometimes, on other grounds, good laws.
