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Bill: Free Science Reregulatory Act 2
Details
Submitted by[?]: Radical Freedom 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: November 2164
Description[?]:
| An Act to deregulate several regulations upon the scientific community, including cloning regulations and several provisions relating to GM-foods including the requirement to list GM-origins of a food product on the package.. Rutanian science advances at a rapid pace, and we feel that the law should adapt to reflect this practice |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Listing of controversial ingredients, such as genetically modified (GM) ingredients (if food labelling is applied).
Old value:: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Current: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing must be listed. There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients.
Proposed: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing must be listed. There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards the cloning of human beings.
Old value:: Research in cloning technologies is legal, but regulated.
Current: Research in cloning technologies is legal, but regulated.
Proposed: Research in cloning technologies is not regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:58:17, December 31, 2005 CET | From | Radical Freedom Party | To | Debating the Free Science Reregulatory Act 2 |
| Message | This proposal had a majority in the Parliament, it was only voted down because of spite on the part of the Freedom Party. We trust they will be responsible and make the right choice for the Rutanian people this time. |
| Date | 14:27:03, December 31, 2005 CET | From |  RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Free Science Reregulatory Act 2 |
| Message | It is very important that cloning is regulated, even experts in cloning technologies agree that unregulated cloning is dangerous. Cloning technologies are not safe enough yet to be applied on human beings. And we believe it is very important that the consumer knows what he or she is buying. If they are against the genetic modification of crops, they have the right to be able to avoid buying products containing them. |
| Date | 14:36:37, December 31, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Free Science Reregulatory Act 2 |
| Message | "It is very important that cloning is regulated, even experts in cloning technologies agree that unregulated cloning is dangerous. Cloning technologies are not safe enough yet to be applied on human beings." What might happen, RSDP? People cloning world leaders and replacing them with automaton clones that obey their every whim, as you proposed would happen last time? |
| Date | 23:49:19, December 31, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Free Science Reregulatory Act 2 |
| Message | The "honourable" member of the LIP is talking crap, we have never suggested any such thing. But all experts agree that we mustn't allow technologies which are not 100% safe to be applied on human beings! |
| Date | 17:04:41, January 01, 2006 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Free Science Reregulatory Act 2 |
| Message | We regret that, contrary to the advice of experts, this legislative assembly has decided to side with stupidity. |
| Date | 21:07:20, January 01, 2006 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Free Science Reregulatory Act 2 |
| Message | OOC: And if you're wondering which experts I'm talking about, I'm referring to the "father" of the first Belgian so-called "test-tube baby", who literally said that we mustn't allow cloning technologies to be applied on human beings unregulated because we don't know enough about it yet and must do more research into it. IC: It is also a fact that cloned animals generally have a much shorter life expectancy, as well as serious health problems, which is why mucy more reseach is necessary before we even consider allowing the deregulation of research into cloning technologies and their applications! (OOC: again here are RL examples) Vote for Science! Vote AGAINST this bill! |
| Date | 21:08:41, January 01, 2006 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Free Science Reregulatory Act 2 |
| Message | All this bill will do, by deregulating cloning technologies, is causing scandals with cloned children being born with severe disorders, which will eventually lead to less and less money going to research into cloning technologies. Hence, scientific research would be discouraged under this bill rather than stimulated. |
| Date | 21:21:59, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Free Science Reregulatory Act 2 |
| Message | "The "honourable" member of the LIP is talking crap, we have never suggested any such thing." Actually, you did: "We think that perhaps our comrades in the LIP do not realise the scientific implications of unregulated cloning. Important people could be killed and replaced eith clones of themselves made to obey their masters absolutely. I realise that this may sound like the plot from a bad scfience fiction movie, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. This scenario may sound unlikely, but I still believe that cloning needs to be regulated." http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=13041 |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 367 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 161 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 71 |
| Random fact: Particracy allows you to establish an unelected head of state like a monarch or a president-for-life, but doing this is a bit of a process. First elect a candidate with the name "." to the Head of State position. Then change your law on the "Structure of the executive branch" to "The head of state is hereditary and symbolic; the head of government chairs the cabinet" and change the "formal title of the head of state" to how you want the new head of state's title and name to appear (eg. King Percy XVI). |
| Random quote: "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970) |