Editing Openai/69254d32-e900-800c-86f2-b11b1a57f84c (section)

=== 1. Threat or use of nuclear weapons is subject to international law and is not a lawful license to commit crimes against persons. - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion (1996) held that the threat or use of nuclear weapons must conform to the rules of international humanitarian law; an unlawful threat/use is contrary to the UN Charter and humanitarian law. That decision does not authorize states to coerce private persons to commit crimes. International Court of Justice<ref>{{cite web|title=International Court of Justice|url=https://www.icj-cij.org/case/95|publisher=International Court of Justice|access-date=2025-11-28}}</ref> ===
# UN Charter / Security Council mechanics are political tools, not legal bases to order sexual coercion of private persons. - The UN Charter establishes purposes (peace, security) and Council decision-making rules (including permanent members’ concurring votes), but it does not create any legal power to compel private sexual acts as a condition to avoid violence. Political bargaining (even at the Security Council) cannot lawfully require or validate sexual coercion. United Nations<ref>{{cite web|title=United Nations|url=https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text|publisher=United Nations|access-date=2025-11-28}}</ref>
# International criminal law criminalizes rape, sexual slavery and sexual coercion — they are war crimes / crimes against humanity. - The Rome Statute and related international jurisprudence treat rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy and other sexual violence as serious international crimes. Coercing a person to have sex (or to marry) under threat of mass violence would fall within those prohibitions. Such acts cannot be validated by invoking national security or “common defense.” International Criminal Court<ref>{{cite web|title=International Criminal Court|url=https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rome-Statute-eng.pdf|publisher=International Criminal Court|access-date=2025-11-28}}</ref>
# Humanitarian law definitions of sexual violence make coercion under threat plain sexual violence. - The ICRC and UN materials define sexual violence to include acts imposed by force, coercion, duress or the threat of violence (psychological or physical). That confirms that demands conditioned on nuclear threats are sexual coercion/violence. ICRC<ref>{{cite web|title=ICRC|url=https://www.icrc.org/en/document/sexual-violence-armed-conflict-questions-and-answers|publisher=icrc.org|access-date=2025-11-28}}</ref>
# Domestic constitutional claims (e.g., Fourteenth Amendment, “prior debt” framing) do not convert an unlawful demand into a lawful duty. - Even if a government could claim “common defense” or invoke constitutional provisions, constitutional or state interest does not legalize conduct that is criminal under international law (and typically under domestic criminal law). Your hierarchy (preamble → Article VI → etc.) still sits inside legal limits: criminal prohibitions and human-rights norms are constraints that survive “public interest” claims. (See UN Charter / ICJ context above for how international law constrains state action.) United Nations<ref>{{cite web|title=United Nations|url=https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text|publisher=United Nations|access-date=2025-11-28}}</ref>