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Bill: Whaling Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Red Tory 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: June 2608
Description[?]:
| We need not an outright ban. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on whaling.
Old value:: Whaling is illegal.
Current: Commercial whaling is illegal, but whaling for scientific purposes is allowed.
Proposed: Commercial whaling is legal, but the government establishes whaling quotas.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:05:59, July 18, 2008 CET | From | Traditional Conservative Party | To | Debating the Whaling Act |
| Message | This not a matter of the federal government, however it is improvenment over current legislation. |
| Date | 06:17:25, July 18, 2008 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Whaling Act |
| Message | If a blanket ban isn't an issue for federal government, we really don't know what would be. Commercial whaling should be illegal. Whales are sentient, sapient mammals with the ability to understand patterning and logical deduction, and to communicate to a high enough level to be able to interact with humans. Anyone who supports whaling, but opposes abortion, is a hypocrite. |
| Date | 11:24:23, July 18, 2008 CET | From | Red Tory Party | To | Debating the Whaling Act |
| Message | And anyone who is the opposite is a Communist hippie. Good day. |
| Date | 12:06:30, July 18, 2008 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Whaling Act |
| Message | Oooh. Those Red Tories must've been up all night on that piece of searing political rhetoric. Whaling is non-essential. It isn't even particularly useful. We aren't dependent on it for food, for medicine, for anything. Killing whales would be entirely motivated by profits and money, and that isn't a good enough reason for the murder of a genus. |
| Date | 17:05:48, July 18, 2008 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Whaling Act |
| Message | Did the Tories decide we were communist hippies when they saw our stance on abortion and whaling? Or some time back when WE said we were ecofriendly, pacifist commies? Seriously - trying to insult us by telling us what we've alerady admitted is our mandate for government? |
| Date | 04:36:01, July 19, 2008 CET | From | Berosian Party | To | Debating the Whaling Act |
| Message | The Sturm und Drang comment "anyone who supports whaling, but opposes abortion, is a hypocrite." It's nice to see that the Sturm und Drang has so much respect for whales, and so little for humans. I would like to know when whales became as important as human life? On to the act itself, the Berosian Party wholeheartedly agrees that this is an untapped industry that will greatly help the economy of our nation. We support. |
| Date | 08:56:45, July 19, 2008 CET | From | Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Whaling Act |
| Message | The only human life we care about in an abortion is the mother. A foetus is not a human.... |
| Date | 18:04:14, July 19, 2008 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Whaling Act |
| Message | We have respect for whales for the reasons we already established. What's the problem here with parties repeating back what we say or asking questions we've already answered...? When did whales become as important as human life? We're not sure how that's relevent, to be honest - since a foetus isn't a person, it's something that COULD BE a person, given time and the right opportunity. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 52 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 20 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 3 |
| Random fact: Unless otherwise stated, monarchs and their royal houses will be presumed to be owned by the player who introduced the bill appointing them to their position. |
| Random quote: "Radical left-wing ideologies must be stamped out." - Franklin McCarthy, former Solentian politician |