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Bill: Science and Technology Reform Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: SocLib '82
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: March 2489
Description[?]:
| As per the report released by the Ministry of Science and Technology, found here: http://www.takeforum.com/particracy/viewtopic.php?p=168388&mforum=particracy#168388 We are proposing to foster innovation and brilliance in one of the most important areas of our nation's economy and academic institutions. |
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 research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs but does not regulate their prices.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards the cloning of human beings.
Old value:: The cloning of human beings is illegal.
Current: Research in cloning technologies is legal, but regulated.
Proposed: Research in cloning technologies is legal, but regulated.
Article 4
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: The use of animals in research is subject to basic regulations.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards space exploration.
Old value:: The government shall fully fund a state-owned space agency which controls all national space-related activity.
Current: The government shall operate a space agency that contracts with and oversees private space-exploration companies.
Proposed: The government shall operate a space agency that contracts with and oversees private space-exploration companies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:25:06, November 16, 2007 CET | From | Royalist Confederacy | To | Debating the Science and Technology Reform Bill |
| Message | 1, 4, 5 Ok. Article 2 does not change much... Article 3 never... |
| Date | 21:34:36, November 16, 2007 CET | From | Hutorian Anarcho-Communist Party | To | Debating the Science and Technology Reform Bill |
| Message | After some discussion, agreed. We disagreed with price regulation until it was brought to our attention that, since we fully subsidize the price afterwards anyways, it would not make that much of a difference to the people. Space agency was iffy, but we'll concede. |
| Date | 09:30:24, November 17, 2007 CET | From | SocLib '82 | To | Debating the Science and Technology Reform Bill |
| Message | We are awaiting further consensus before any changes to the bill are made. Hopefully this will be done before the next elections.. |
| Date | 09:35:57, November 17, 2007 CET | From | "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic Party | To | Debating the Science and Technology Reform Bill |
| Message | "No. I can just repeat what I and others have said before: Human being is absolute. It has to be absolute. And that means that human being as a whole is invulnerable, including his body and fleshliness, his emotional abilities and needs, his social wants, his very own creativity and individuality, his thinking, in short human being as a whole. If we reduce only one of the elements constituting human being as multiple unity, we mutilate the very man's possibilities, and insofar as a man is his possibilities, the man itself. A man is not an animal possessing language, a man is no talking and thinking thing, human being lies outside of all the categories that organize our world because human being is the location and scene of this categories. Man mustn't be reduced to a bare object of science and research! Human being is more. Science has no understanding for the magnificent singleness, no understanding for self-creating freedom and no understanding for artistical creativity and world-building. That is why we can never agree to Acrticle 3 [cloning technologies]. Do not destroy the amazing fact (not in a scientific sense) of human being by destroying it's invulnerability!! ..." Ephrajm Chajm Dichter, party leader (We wouldn't agree to any of the other proposals anyway...) |
| Date | 19:32:53, November 17, 2007 CET | From | SocLib '82 | To | Debating the Science and Technology Reform Bill |
| Message | "This bill would not permit a slippery-slope into the field of human cloning, it simply would allow research on human cloning. Essentially, stem cell research would be allowed to prevent disease and further the cause of humanity that you so eloquently revere. Science can easily explain human biology, and science ought to be used to improve and further understand the biology of human beings. To simply declare human beings sacred and act as if we are nothing but philosophical motes of an ethereal world is not totally off-course, but it is certainly misguided. To prosper, humanity must employ all the tools at its disposal, and science is one of those tools. We urge the Aesthetic Party to vote in favor." Edu Bati Minister of Science and Technology |
| Date | 10:31:08, November 18, 2007 CET | From | "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic Party | To | Debating the Science and Technology Reform Bill |
| Message | "I am sorry! Human being is one of the things that have to be invulnerable. If it is not the state or the regime lacks humanity. We agree that science is improving the human situation and we are just as glad about that as you are. We would never retard scientific research just for the sake of retarding. But cloning touches human being in it's deepest definition and essence. Cloning makes the very nucleus of human being an object of scientific research, and that is a proposal we can never support..." Ephrajm Chajm Dichter, party leader |
| Date | 17:12:25, November 20, 2007 CET | From | Royalist Confederacy | To | Debating the Science and Technology Reform Bill |
| Message | Well we would vote yes but we cant agree on legal cloning. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 98 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 182 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 21 |
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| Random quote: "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." - Clarie Sargent |