So how does that reversal happen?

There's a lot to say about human shielding, because after human right to dominate, when we came across the concept and its uses, we decided to write a whole book about it.

And in a way, the history of human shielding is the history of the human, because only a human or someone that is recognized as a human can be a human shield.

And so if we look at That historically at Human Shields, the first chapter in the Human Shields book begins with this, the Civil War in the United States, because it was whites fighting against whites.

And we, that's when the concept really emerges, not through whites fighting.

Fighting against non-whites because the non-whites were never considered human or fully human.

And we see the siege on Charleston and Charleston is a slave city and half the population is probably black.

But I wonder if you think that there's something... particular to the discourse of human rights that makes it especially vulnerable to this kind of co-optation? Or maybe you don't even think it's co-optation.