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Bill: Whaling Ban
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Labour 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: January 4257
Description[?]:
| The banning of a barbaric act |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on whaling.
Old value:: Local governments decide about whaling.
Current: Commercial whaling is legal, but the government establishes whaling quotas.
Proposed: Whaling is illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:51:20, August 14, 2017 CET | From |  Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Whaling Ban |
| Message | This is ridiculous. Why would we sacrifice our economy for this. We should have a balance of whaling and whale protection. |
| Date | 01:57:40, August 14, 2017 CET | From | Socialist Labour Party | To | Debating the Whaling Ban |
| Message | It is terrible |
| Date | 02:02:14, August 14, 2017 CET | From | Socialist Labour Party | To | Debating the Whaling Ban |
| Message | whales deserve better |
| Date | 02:03:18, August 14, 2017 CET | From | Socialist Labour Party | To | Debating the Whaling Ban |
| Message | are we going to sacrifice anything for the economy? Would we employ children as chimney sweeps? |
| Date | 21:33:25, August 14, 2017 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Whaling Ban |
| Message | I am simply saying that whaling is still going to happen regardless of legality, and it will create a black market. Why not pass restrictions on whaling, though not making it illegal, so that we can protect the whales as well as keep our economy alive. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 84 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 75 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 141 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?" - Emma Goldman |