Torah as EULA?!

In this sense we might compare the treaty stipulations with the end-user license agreement that accompanies most software purchases. Few people ever read these documents, but we know what they say (agreements not to pirate the software, releasing the company from liability, etc.). And we know more or less intuitively what the proper use of the product entails. The license can be invoked in a lawsuit against pirates— that is its purpose—but we do not have to read the document to know that we are not supposed to steal the product. Likewise, treaty documents could be invoked in a lawsuit against rebels—the ANE often considered war to be a form of legal action—but the vassals did not have to read the document to know what constituted rebellion. What the suzerain wants from the vassal is faithfulness, and he (almost always male) has both general and specific ideas concerning what that entails.—Walton and Walton, The Lost World of the Torah, 48