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Bill: Robotic Citizenship Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Robotic Anarcho Syndicalistic Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: October 2441
Description[?]:
| This act, if passed, will give fully sentient robots full rights as citizens. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning granting nationality (national of this state without implication of having citizenship rights).
Old value:: Only those born to nationals become nationals.
Current: Anyone is able to claim nationality.
Proposed: Anyone receives nationality but immigrants must pass a test to gain nationality.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:17:31, August 07, 2007 CET | From | Robotic Anarcho Syndicalistic Party | To | Debating the Robotic Citizenship Act |
| Message | Robots are not born; they are manufactured. We must not allow our legal system the opportunity to discriminate based on reproductive methods. |
| Date | 22:22:05, August 07, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Robotic Citizenship Act |
| Message | Robots do not have souls. Their consciousness is false, and they do not deserve the same rights as the Jewish Peoples. |
| Date | 02:30:00, August 08, 2007 CET | From | Pharaoh's People's Party | To | Debating the Robotic Citizenship Act |
| Message | It should not be the concern of the government as to the method in which an entity came into existence. If it can pass the test, it deserves citizenship. |
| Date | 12:58:51, August 08, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Robotic Citizenship Act |
| Message | Wait, so if i can train a dog to pass the test, and act like a person in no other way, despite the fact it obviously doesnt deserve to be equal man, it should be afforded the same rights? Robots are the same; they are simply not people, those with A.I (which we really doubt truly exists in the form of making robots think they have a consciousness or feelings, or else we would be doing our bests to destroy it) have no real feelings, it is all just a program. They do not deserve the same rights as men because they are not equal to men, not in Gods or anybodies eyes. |
| Date | 20:22:23, August 08, 2007 CET | From | Pharaoh's People's Party | To | Debating the Robotic Citizenship Act |
| Message | If the test is properly designed it will ensure that only sapient things are capable of passing the test and therefore capable of influencing the government. Why should human emotions, mortality, or morality be a requirement for citizenship? |
| Date | 20:32:13, August 08, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Robotic Citizenship Act |
| Message | Because robots dont have souls and are not loved by God? If you dont like that, then the reason human qualities should play a part in deciding citizenship is because traditionally only humans get citizenship. It would be ridiculously easy to program a robot to pass a citizenship test, ecspecially if we ignore human qualities like you suggest. |
| Date | 23:07:25, August 08, 2007 CET | From | Pharaoh's People's Party | To | Debating the Robotic Citizenship Act |
| Message | We would obviously have to ensure that robots are not programed to be additional voters for their manufacturors, yes, but this could be done quite easilly through regulating the produciton of robots (which we would be doing anyway to prevent criminal activities). If there is an intelligence which can understand politics and make a decision about it on its own, it should be able to seek citizenship. |
| Date | 23:35:49, August 08, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Robotic Citizenship Act |
| Message | First of all, we doubt any such robots really exist, given in they are not known anywhere else in Terra, and our the fact our own technology industry is far behind the rich world. Secondly, its not about whether they can understand politics, its about the fact they are machines; they have NO rights. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 61 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 14 |
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