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Bill: Protecting Our Nation's Future
Details
Submitted by[?]: Green Socialist 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: June 2468
Description[?]:
| Recently a rash of overly-permissive bills, made in the spirit of being progressive, have allowed Kazulian youth to become overexposed to certain facets of adult life, without having the skills or experience to safely deal with them. In particular, we believe that the lack of legal age limits on consuming alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, blatantly sets our children and young people up to the dangers of excessive drinking and drug use - which has far more dangerous physical consequences on younger bodies, as well as removing adult boundaries from which children can learn to safely consume (or avoid) such legal drugs. Furthermore, we believe that the unrestricted diffusion of graphic sexual and violent content on TV throughout the day creates difficulties for children in understanding what is, in fact, proper and socially acceptable behaviour, as denying parents a chance to screen their children from being prematurely introduced to what they may consider to be excessively mature, inappropriate or even frightening television content. By this, we mean anything covered from violent rape scenes in movies, scenes of violence and death on early news programs to sex scenes. We believe that this bill, far from restricting the rights of our young, sets the proper and right balance between protecting our youth from adult nasties, and allowing them to grow up and explore the world at their own time and pace. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards alcoholic beverages.
Old value:: Alcoholic beverages may be purchased only from licensed sales outlets, but consumed by anyone.
Current: Alcoholic beverages may be purchased and consumed anywhere, but only by adults.
Proposed: Alcoholic beverages may be purchased only from licensed sales outlets, and can only be available to adults.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding sexually explicit material on broadcast television.
Old value:: All sexually explicit material is allowed on television.
Current: All sexually explicit material is allowed on television.
Proposed: Sexually explicit material is not allowed, but nudity that is not sexually explicit is.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The time at which sexually explicit content may be shown on broadcast television (if allowed).
Old value:: Sexually explicit content may be shown all day long.
Current: Sexually explicit content may be shown all day long.
Proposed: Sexually explicit content or nudity may only be shown during hours that very few children watch television
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Sale of tobacco products.
Old value:: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco products but everyone is allowed to buy them.
Current: Only adults may purchase tobacco.
Proposed: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco and only adults may purchase tobacco.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:55:20, October 09, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Protecting Our Nation's Future |
| Message | 1. drugs will be used no matter what we do, and when your kids smoke do you turn them into the poplice or sympaly punish them? 2. just because they play violute video games or something dosnt mean they will do it, anyone who is dumb anuf to beleve that a game is rellatity wouldnt be playing hte game at all they will do it only if it agrees with its openion |
| Date | 17:35:33, October 09, 2007 CET | From | Pertetuum Kazulia | To | Debating the Protecting Our Nation's Future |
| Message | To reply to the Liberal Socialist's points 1. Just because people will still be able to find ways to do it illegally, doesn't mean we should allow things. Or do you want to legalize murder too? And it is not the kids that are punishable, but the people who let the kids do that to themselves. 2. Kids are a little underinformed, unfortunately. That's why they are not adults yet. |
| Date | 17:40:17, October 09, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Protecting Our Nation's Future |
| Message | tell me why is it that none of the kids in the school casue violence everyday? because video games dont do shit. |
| Date | 17:40:50, October 09, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Protecting Our Nation's Future |
| Message | and so its because stoping murder is possible stoping people from doing drugs is nearly impossible |
| Date | 17:41:27, October 09, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Protecting Our Nation's Future |
| Message | also keep the goverment out of are bodys if people want ot ruin htere lifes let them |
| Date | 03:33:24, October 10, 2007 CET | From | Demokratisk Pacifist Partiet | To | Debating the Protecting Our Nation's Future |
| Message | It's not the government's job to "protect" children from material it deems offensive. That is the parent's duty, and nobody else's. |
| Date | 03:40:46, October 10, 2007 CET | From | Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Protecting Our Nation's Future |
| Message | I would counter to the DPP that allowing minors unrestricted access to alcohol and tobacco is the responsibility of all society, and is in fact beyond the control of parents if the minor so decides to purchase them. I encourage you to change your vote in the health interests of young Kazulians. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 315 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 435 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Information about the population of each country can be found on the Population Information thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8663 |
| Random quote: As for rape, of course, that is a direct consequence of the capitalist system of oppression. Capitalism relies on fuelling division and resentment to sustain itself, and so it sets men against women, race against race and so on. Men rape women because they are being oppressed by capitalism, so they take it out on women. Under Communism, there will be no rape, because there will be a full and natural harmony and equality between the genders. ~ Friedrich Pfeiffer General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party |