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Bill: IP Scientific Freedom Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperialist Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2392
Description[?]:
| The benefit to mankind should be the penultimate aim of government policies. Environmentalism and the obsession with "animal cruelty" of the modern era, is nothing more than the emergence of fetishization of commodities. Furthermore, we have problems with pet overpopulation as it is, because people do not spay and neuter their pets. Instead of merely slaughtering those animals, we can provide positive benefits to mankind. As for cosmetic products, the arguments of some that this is "superficial" is utter hypocrisy. Animals are killed for fashion all the time - but who would actually go the full step of say, banning leather. Animal research can create jobs, wealth, and better products for consumers. Not to mention, the safety of such products will be enhanced, since it will have been tested on animals, instead of on individuals within the marketplace (which is how things are tested, effectively, if we don't allow animal testing). |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The use of animals in cosmetics research.
Old value:: Animals may not be used for testing cosmetics products.
Current: Animals may not be used for testing cosmetics products.
Proposed: The use of animals to test cosmetic products is regulated.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The use of animals in medical research.
Old value:: Animal research projects must apply for a license and submit to regulation.
Current: Animal research projects must apply for a license and submit to regulation.
Proposed: There are no restrictions on the use of animals for research.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:35:49, April 20, 2007 CET | From | Marxist Peoples Party | To | Debating the IP Scientific Freedom Act |
| Message | I agree |
| Date | 20:07:56, April 21, 2007 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the IP Scientific Freedom Act |
| Message | Again, where will you get your guinea pigs when there are no pigs left in guinea? |
| Date | 21:29:12, April 21, 2007 CET | From | Imperialist Party | To | Debating the IP Scientific Freedom Act |
| Message | Well that is why you breed them and then experiment on them. We aren't experimenting on endangered species here, but rats and such. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 481 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 58 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 62 |
| Random fact: Players have a responsibility to make a reasonable effort to be accurate when communicating the rules to other players. Any player who manipulatively misleads another player about the rules will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "Socialists like to tout their confiscation and redistribution schemes as noble and caring, but we should ask if theft is ever noble or caring." - Robert Hawes |