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Bill: CP.0237.2790 Biological and Chemical Weaponry Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative 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: August 2791
Description[?]:
| Gives us a safety net to defend our people. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
Current: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Current: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:11:26, July 24, 2009 CET | From | Mugenkai | To | Debating the CP.0237.2790 Biological and Chemical Weaponry Bill |
| Message | A safety net protects. At best, a WMD deterrent is more of a security system -- and a vastly disproportionate one at that. If convenience stores could shoot shoplifters without probable cause, I bet attempts at that crime would fall to next to nothing... but such logic, basing its conclusions on a small set of facts and pretending the rest is irrelevant, is of course grossly flawed. Likewise, nuclear weapons can prevent war... at the cost of making war unprecedentedly disastrous for innocents on both sides of a conflict, as well as neighboring states. We cannot simply assume that a nuclear war would never happen, any more than we could blithely assume that a conventional war would not. |
| Date | 03:15:22, July 24, 2009 CET | From | Mugenkai | To | Debating the CP.0237.2790 Biological and Chemical Weaponry Bill |
| Message | Said "nuclear," but I had gotten my bills confused. However, the argument applies to biological and the largest-scale chemical weapons as well. |
| Date | 09:38:35, July 24, 2009 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the CP.0237.2790 Biological and Chemical Weaponry Bill |
| Message | We're opposed, though we do support allowing research to find cures and such should we ever be attacked by them. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 299 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 301 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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