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Bill: Animal Rights Bill

Details

Submitted by^[?]: Utilolibertarian 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: September 2113

Description^[?]:

Hereby resolved to recognize the rights of animals and their owners in Deltaria:

Proposal^[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of wild animals as pets.

Old value:: The ownership of wild animals as pets is banned.

Current: The ownership of wild animals as pets is banned.

Proposed: Wild animals may be kept as pets; the owners of dangerous wild animals must take the necessary measures to ensure they can't escape.

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date	02:03:37, September 17, 2005 CET
From	Doron Akigansk Kommunist Parti (MLN)
To	Debating the Animal Rights Bill
Message	Heavens no. For many reasons, such as preventing the spread of foreign disease into our national livestock, etc.

Date	03:26:25, September 17, 2005 CET
From	National Socialist Party of Deltaria
To	Debating the Animal Rights Bill
Message	Agreed with the CPD. Against.

Date	04:31:24, September 17, 2005 CET
From	Marchioness Party
To	Debating the Animal Rights Bill
Message	The MP is also against.

Date	08:48:49, September 17, 2005 CET
From	Sedliacke Povstanie
To	Debating the Animal Rights Bill
Message	The CP made a good point.

Date	21:12:52, September 17, 2005 CET
From	Utilolibertarian Party
To	Debating the Animal Rights Bill
Message	If the exotic animal clause is removed due to well-founded concerns about disease, will people support the second clause about wild animals?

Date	23:01:13, September 17, 2005 CET
From	Doron Akigansk Kommunist Parti (MLN)
To	Debating the Animal Rights Bill
Message	The Communist Party finds it hard to get enthusiastic about Article 2. The Right to own Wild Animals sounds ridiculous. We'd probably vote against, simply due to the dangers of safety.

Date	03:05:59, September 18, 2005 CET
From	Utilolibertarian Party
To	Debating the Animal Rights Bill
Message	The term "wild animal" is just an arbitrary distinction. All animals were once "wild." The natural state of the animal is to be "wild." And furthermore, owners are liable for safety precautions.

Date	03:35:04, September 18, 2005 CET
From	Doron Akigansk Kommunist Parti (MLN)
To	Debating the Animal Rights Bill
Message	They may be liable for safety precautions, but that doesn't mean some tiger won't eat a guest at some point. It just means the owner will have to pay injuries.

Date	04:13:47, September 18, 2005 CET
From	National Socialist Party of Deltaria
To	Debating the Animal Rights Bill
Message	"The government maintains a list of dangerous wild animals which may not be kept as pets; other wild animals may be kept as pets." This appears far saner to the NSP.

Date	06:05:48, September 18, 2005 CET
From	Utilolibertarian Party
To	Debating the Animal Rights Bill
Message	But dangerous is just in the eye of the beholder. We have churches in Deltaria where people worship with venomous snakes, I've seen people who keep tigers in the same rooms as their babies.

Date	07:14:25, September 18, 2005 CET
From	National Socialist Party of Deltaria
To	Debating the Animal Rights Bill
Message	.... and the fact that people are stupid morons somehow makes brown snakes and tigers less dangerous? Might I point out the death rate of snake-handling ministers in Deltaria? The cost of tending to ministers who've lost arms and legs from non-fatal bites? And as the keeping of wild animals as pets is banned, the NSP would like to know exactly what kind of criminal filth the speaker for the ULP has been associating with. In the interests of protecting the children of Deltaria, the NSP reccomends that the ULP speaker is immediately taken into police custody to be interrogated for the names of these irresponsible and dangerous child-abusers, so that they may be brought to justice and their children removed from such a hazardous home environment and placed into suitable state care.

Vote

Seats

yes

Total Seats: 44

Total Seats: 56

abstain

Total Seats: 0

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