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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is diplomatic immunity even a thing? Why was this particular job decided to be above the law?
gpt
It’s to prevent diplomatic incidents and/or bullshit where the hosting country rounds up/arrests/harasses diplomats. The idea is that no matter how bad relations between two countries get the diplomats will be safe and should relationships sour to the point of total diplomatic breakdown the diplomats will be sent home, rather than imprisoned.

**Most** of the time countries try to make sure their diplomats are well behaved and avoid incidents, nobody wants that.