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Bill: Moratorium on stupidity
Details
Submitted by[?]: Benevolent Totalitarian Party - FLF
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2048
Description[?]:
Given the large volume of legislation proposed recently, and given the poor quality of much of that legislation, we propose the following voting guidelines for all rational parties:
1. We shall never approve a bill in which the content of the description does not coincide with the effects of the game proposals attached to it. In other words, we shall not approve a bill that says one thing and does something else entirely (hint hint at many of the CRIP's bills).
2. We shall never approve a bill whose wording is so unclear as to allow a wide variety of interpretations and leave the door wide open to abuse. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:02:45, May 03, 2005 CET |
From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Moratorium on stupidity | | Message | This bill in itself matches conditions for "2. We shall never approve a bill whose wording is so unclear as to allow a wide variety of interpretations and leave the door wide open to abuse." And in some ways fits its first point as well. |
| Date | 22:53:20, May 03, 2005 CET |
From | Benevolent Totalitarian Party - FLF | To | Debating the Moratorium on stupidity | | Message | This isn't a bill in the sense of something I'd actually want to pass - I'm just using it as a way to communicate with the other parties. And I certainly don't plan to attach any proposals to it, so the description can't contradict something that doesn't exist, can it? |
| Date | 23:03:44, May 03, 2005 CET |
From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Moratorium on stupidity | | Message | Sure it can after all this is a bill "that says one thing and does something else entirely". Frankly its a rather dumb way to insult another party. |
| Date | 23:35:07, May 03, 2005 CET |
From | Benevolent Totalitarian Party - FLF | To | Debating the Moratorium on stupidity | | Message | This bill doesn't actually DO anything at all.
And the CRIP is a party of idiots who can't even write proper English. It's pretty difficult to deny that. (Now you see why I hate democracy? Would you want to be ruled by a moron like that?)
In any case, this bill isn't just attacking a habit of the CRIP; it's an appeal to everyone to keep their proposals consistent with their bill descriptions. |
| Date | 06:04:15, May 04, 2005 CET |
From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Moratorium on stupidity | | Message | Actually I've made my point quite clear that whether this is a neon sign or not, its garbage and a reflection of a low level of maturity on the part of your party. Thats all my arguement was, and you conceded the point by admiting that it was nothing more than a neon sign. |
| Date | 11:30:48, May 04, 2005 CET |
From | Benevolent Totalitarian Party - FLF | To | Debating the Moratorium on stupidity | | Message | I was not aware that putting up with idiocy was a sign of maturity, PPP, and neither was I aware that trying to improve the quality of political debate in our nation was a sign of immaturity. |
| Date | 15:50:40, May 04, 2005 CET |
From | National Democratic Party | To | Debating the Moratorium on stupidity | | Message | For the first time, I shall abstain, although this bill will be put back into debate after the forthcoming election! So I may reconsider then. |
| Date | 20:06:44, May 04, 2005 CET |
From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Moratorium on stupidity | | Message | BTP, fighting what you call "idiocy" with your own brand of idiocy does not beget a debate of higher quality. This bill is an embarrassment. |
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| Vote |
Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 43 |
| no | Total Seats: 71 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Before creating a party organisation, check to see whether there are any existing organisations which cover the same agenda. |
| Random quote: "When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick.'" - Mikhail Bakunin |