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Bill: Bill for the preservation of endangered animals
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Liberalism 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: January 2470
Description[?]:
| With the recent legislation that announces the Alorian Lion as the Alorian national animal, I think it only fitting that we work toward preserving these noble beasts, as well as their fellow animals at risk. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of endangered animals.
Old value:: Everyone may keep endangered animals, but the trade in, and the ownership of, endangered animals is strictly regulated by the government to prevent their extinction in the wild.
Current: Keeping endangered animals, or trading therein, is forbidden.
Proposed: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep endangered animals; all other forms of keeping or trading in endangered animals are forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:37:58, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Bill for the preservation of endangered animals |
| Message | We've never understood this bill. Why do you think preventing private ownership of endangered animals will protect them better than permitting regulated private ownership as well as zoological ownership of endangered animals? The way we see it, the current law protects them better than the proposed law. Right now, zoos can keep Alorian Lions. And if some private individual wants to breed them, and can comply with the pertinent regulations, so can he. What about restricting private ownership protects the animals? We agree in principle with protecting endangered species. But we're not convinced this bill does it better than the current law. |
| Date | 23:58:35, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Bill for the preservation of endangered animals |
| Message | Well said DR. That's some of that Democratic Rationality showing there! |
| Date | 06:34:31, October 13, 2007 CET | From | Social Liberalism Party | To | Debating the Bill for the preservation of endangered animals |
| Message | It does better to protect animals because zoological institutes can be regulated by the government, whereas private ownership can not. Even if the trade in endangered animals is regulated, there's no way of knowing what people will do with them once they have them in their possession. 90% of endangered animals are also completely unsuitable for domestication, they are wild beasts and they can be extremely dangerous in the wrong hands! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 338 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 362 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players who deliberately attempt to present a misleading picture of the nation's current RP laws will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato |