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Bill: Prohibition of Torture Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dorvische Kommunistische Partei
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 4303
Description[?]:
| Torture should have no role at all in the Dorvish police force. Not only is its use grossly immoral and a grave violation of human rights, but it is also relatively useless, since when people are threatened with torture, they will tell their interrogators whatever they think they want to hear. Anton Weinstein Chairman of the Dorvish Communist Party |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The use of torture for obtaining information.
Old value:: Suspects can only be tortured under grave emergencies where the information is vital.
Current: Suspects can only be tortured under grave emergencies where the information is vital.
Proposed: Torture is never allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
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| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 344 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 255 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players consent to the reasonable and predictable consequences of the role-play they consent to. For example, players who role-play their characters as committing criminal offences should expect those characters to experience the predictable judicial consequences of that. |
| Random quote: "The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - Edward Dowling |