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Bill: Let's ban obscurantism
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Party of Likatonia (CPL)
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: November 4484
Description[?]:
| Religious schools are places to nurture darkness and obscurantism. These spots are a source of laziness, submission, voluntary slavery, and illogical thinking. We propose to ban these schools and transfer students into our official modern schools. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Current: Religious schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Religious schools are not allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:57:06, November 12, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Existentialist Party (LEP) | To | Debating the Let's ban obscurantism |
| Message | This is a damaging course of action to take, as it opens the way for the abolition of private schooling, which is an essential part of a part-private, part-public education systems. Furthermore, the ability to dedicate a school to any area of study, it be religious or scientific, is to the merit of the individual, and shouldn't be part of government action. The idea of "voluntary slavery" is a dangerous one, as it implies the will of the people is self-harming. This only damages democratic thinking. |
| Date | 23:50:10, November 12, 2018 CET | From | Communist Party of Likatonia (CPL) | To | Debating the Let's ban obscurantism |
| Message | As we have mentioned in our manifesto, We believe that private schooling should be banned. Private schools' owners treat students as commodities. They do not care about developing their ethics and thinking. They merely care about filling their brains with rubbish to get the best results, so these greedy business people could make more money. But religious schooling is something else. Thousands of students are attending these schools, so at the end, they work in modest jobs.. While if they studied in modern schools, they can become doctors, engineers, astronauts..etc. |
| Date | 16:52:58, November 13, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Existentialist Party (LEP) | To | Debating the Let's ban obscurantism |
| Message | If you'r opposition is to the types of jobs students might receive in a theological schools, you should know one of two things you've seemed to miss. 1. Theology, as a major, pays a lot more than the lower 3/8th of other majors. It pays certainly performs better than a major in Education. That's because public schooling pays so little to its teachers. 2. Religious schools, having the capacity to teach more than just religion, allow students to enter higher performing fields. The fact that public, private, and religious schools don't perform better or worse from one another means that it's all about locations, environment, etc. for students, and not the education itself. This idea that people thinking for themselves, and choosing to enroll in a religious school, is an extension of their individualism. To take away that option is to take away a component of that individualism, and by nature act in terms of tyranny over the people of Likatonia as a whole. |
| Date | 22:20:28, November 13, 2018 CET | From | No! Movement | To | Debating the Let's ban obscurantism |
| Message | Our movement is defenitely against any form of religious schooling. However, we are also against banning it and therefore we cannot vote for this proposal. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 58 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 195 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 12 |
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