Well said.
Along the lines of "explain the workings of planet Earth to an alien species," I always felt that the observation "so you kill people to show people that killing people is wrong?"
Politics, governments and philosophy aside, even the logic is a bit sketchy.
Sometimes it seems like a very solitary world when everyone around me is more worried about obedience to laws and writing new ones instead of analyzing what we have and asking whether it really works in the first place.