Poll: Don't Shoot Strangers Act

Concrete Slab · 12-24-2019, 02:24 PM

Don't Shoot Strangers Act

A resolution to slash worldwide military spending.

Category: Global Disarmament

Strength: Mild

Proposed by: Umeria

The World Assembly,

Recognizing that even the heart of the most intrepid explorer harbors a primal fear of the unknown;

Realizing that there is nothing more unknown than the first encounter between two peoples;

Concluding, therefore, that neither side of such an encounter can claim foreknowledge of the other side having hostile intent;

Asserting that the vast majority of explorers and other such border dwellers do not exist in a constant state of maliciousness;

Damning any so-called "preemptive strike" exhibited by either side to be an act of the aforementioned primal fear;

Affirming that, as a civilized body, this august assembly should strive to promote acts of logic and reason;

Declaring that logic and reason would prohibit an unprovoked attack without any knowledge of the consequences;

Proclaiming that first impressions matter;Hereby

Defines, for the purposes of this resolution:
1. a "first contact" as a meeting between two or more nations or other comparable legal entities in which at least one party has not previously encountered or communicated with the other;
2. an "act of hostility" towards an entity as any of the following:
  1. firing a weapon at the entity,
  2. charging the entity's position,
  3. violating the entity's national borders, or
  4. entering an area that the entity has issued clear, universal warning signals to not enter;
Prohibits member nations from committing an act of hostility during a first contact if no acts of hostility have been committed by any other parties involved in the first contact; and
Clarifies that member nations shall not claim new territory as a means of circumventing the previous clause.

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(This post was last modified: 12-28-2019, 05:37 PM by Concrete Slab.)

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