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Bill: Wild Animal Ownership and Public Safety Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: We Say So! Party
Status[?]: passed
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: July 2580
Description[?]:
| Understanding the dangers inherent in the ownership and containment of wild animals and accepting the problems of possible escape of aforementioned animals, the Government will henceforth ban the ownership of wild animals by private individuals on grounds of public safety. Zoological institutions may still own and care for wild animals provided high quality security measures are in place at all times and adequate space is provided for the care of aforementioned animals. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of wild animals as pets.
Old value:: Wild animals may be kept as pets; the owners of dangerous wild animals must take the necessary measures to ensure they can't escape.
Current: The ownership of wild animals as pets is banned.
Proposed: The ownership of wild animals as pets is banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:42:47, May 21, 2008 CET | From | People's Liberation Front of Hobrazia | To | Debating the Wild Animal Ownership and Public Safety Act |
| Message | Aye. |
| Date | 19:32:52, May 21, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Wild Animal Ownership and Public Safety Act |
| Message | Although this goes against our general beliefs, for practical reasons, the CNP will vote aye on this bill. |
| Date | 21:12:50, May 21, 2008 CET | From | Liberal Party of Hobrazia | To | Debating the Wild Animal Ownership and Public Safety Act |
| Message | The Liberals oppose. The Wild Animals Act will crack down on children who own pet turtles, garden snakes, and caterpillars. The Liberals have proposed a compromise act, that will outlaw the ownership of dangerous "pets" (cobras, etc.) but preserve a child's right to raise a pet caterpillar. |
| Date | 21:23:05, May 21, 2008 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Wild Animal Ownership and Public Safety Act |
| Message | The inherent nature of a "wild" animal predicates that the animal is either dangerous or from the wild. A pet turtle is not necessarily a wild animal as domesticated turtles have been available for centuries, the same with garden snakes, so would be effected by laws dictating the ownership of domesticated animals. In regards caterpillars, they change into butterflies/moths which are released and are not designated pets under legislation. |
| Date | 21:30:33, May 21, 2008 CET | From | Liberal Party of Hobrazia | To | Debating the Wild Animal Ownership and Public Safety Act |
| Message | While we respect WSSP's opinion, we would like to point out that under their logic, no animal is necessarily wild. If a turtle or garden snake could be domesticated animals, then so could a lion or a aardvark. The beauty of our legislation is that it differentiates between wild and safe and wild and dangerous. |
| Date | 21:41:47, May 21, 2008 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Wild Animal Ownership and Public Safety Act |
| Message | The difficulty with the position held by our honourable colleagues of the LPH is that they make the assumption that all turtles or garden variety snakes are wild. Domesticated versions of those animals have been bred over the centuries creating versions that can be kept safely. A domesticated wolf is a dog. A domesticated lion is a cat. The inherent position of the domestic and the wild is what separates the two. There is no inherent difference between wild and dangerous, in fact the two words can be used interchangeably. It is this position that the WSS!P maintains and whilst we understand the position of the LPH we feel they are mistaking the designations of wild in regards safe within the confines of this legislation. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 219 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 181 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In order for a Cabinet bill to pass, more than half of the legislature must vote for it and all of the parties included in the proposed Cabinet must support it. If your nation has a Head of State who is also the Head of Government, then the party controlling this character must also vote for the bill, since the Head of Government is also a member of the Cabinet. If any of these requirements are not met, the bill will not pass. |
| Random quote: "Men who have greatness in them don't go in for politics." - Albert Camus |