Valint
I trust you know where the happy button is?
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I mean it was a decision that was pretty bad. They allowed someone guilty of mass murder and terrorism to walk free. I don't think there is anything wrong with exposing them for doing that. The consequences of that is on them. It isn't like he harassed them into doing or even attempted to try and get them to commit suicide.
The problem is that it makes fuck-all sense. That plotline requires actively turning off any portion of your brain that understands how government actually works.
The YJ version of diplomatic immunity was just pants-on-head stupid that could maybe be turned into something that kind of makes sense if you squint and just fiat a bunch of shit in the background that isn't in the story, but at least isn't said not to be the truth.
The WTR version turns the stupid up to 11.
I'm not really a fan of "this legal thing that was dumbed down in the comics so ten-year-olds could understand it is dumb" fanfic nitpicks, since... sure? it's like nitpicking a courtroom/hospital drama for not getting the legal/medical details right. This plot point basically looked at the dumbed-down version and said "Hold my beer, we can make it even stupider."
It's better to just let this plot point die unremembered.