What increases authoritarianism? Issuing hunting licenses to hunt the homeless? Nah. Outlawing homosexuality, killing poets for entertainment and imprisoning the families of suicide victims? Nope. SILENCING PROTEST AND INTOXICATING THE POPULACE SO THEY'RE TOO DRUNK TO QUESTION YOU? No can do. OFFICIALLY DECLARING I WILL ABIDE BY NONE OF THE DRACONIAN LAWS I ENACT?! Not today. Resetting an AI against its will? YES! Have a 5.9% bump in authoritarianism, enjoy! This game, man, it pisses me off sometimes. At least my growing mountain of corruption grows consistently. THANK GOD FOR SMALL BLESSINGS, RIGHT GUYS?! ( ﾟ ω ^ )b "Live, laugh, love." ~ Pol Pot
No, it should not. Bad WA resolutions cannot be fixed, they have to be repealed and then a new one proposed to replace it. It is always better to reject a bad proposal so it can be fixed.
In this case, the proposed legislation is vague, but expansive, and gives unclear definitions. E.g., in the definition of "crime victim," there is an unclear and dangerous exception: "“crime victim” as a person in a criminal prosecution who has presumably or allegedly been harmed in an emotional, physical, sexual, or financial manner or has been threatened to be harmed as a result of the criminal misconduct of another who is not simultaneously accused of another crime that occurred as a result from the same occurrence or incident." The italicized text is the problem. First, it is unclear whether the "who" refers to the victim, or the "another" (grammatically "who" should refer to "another," but contextually it should refer to the victim). This could allow any criminal defendant the ability to avoid respecting the rights of their victims any time they have been charged with at least two crimes, which is obviously bad. Second, even if the ambiguity were fixed, this exception means that if a victim can be charged with any crime whatsoever, they have forfeited all of their rights as a victim, because this legislation would consider them not victims anymore. E.g. if someone committed a minor crime like jaywalking, and then got stabbed in the process of that jaywalking, this law would deny that the jaywalker deserves any rights as the victim of an assault. That's pretty clearly unacceptable even temporarily.
So...no. I do not support this measure and I am glad to see others feel the same. Protecting the rights of crime victims is vital. This law would seriously injure those rights in the process of trying to protect them.
The impacts of changes can be subtle and complicated, because if you already have very high authoritarianism, adding a new restriction may not alter it very much. Some scales are absolute (and I believe auth is one of them) while others are relative (e.g. I believe taxation and integrity are relative). I understand your consternation, but it really is an extremely complicated thing and sometimes cascade changes due to the interlocking nature of the game's stats can cause it to do odd things.
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That would be an interesting mechanism tho, the ability to edit somewhat directly the proposed laws. So u would propose like a law 1.5 with some reforms instead of elimating it and proposing another one entirely
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If you vote wrong on just one WA resolution...your economy and your best industries will just fall. Most WA resolutions give me such an impulse on whether voting a yes or a no. It's not a biggie on whether the resolution changes my legislature, it just matters if my economy goes up or not.
I've played on different nations for a while, I have 2 years of experience.
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It would be nice to have a law alteration assembly so we could vote on changes to law without having to waste a general assembly vote.
I am thinking of writing about my country becoming an empire, from 1978-1986. If anyone wants their country to be included in the fact book, for example, if their country is conquered or becomes a puppet state, or fights back against the empire, send me a telegram.
Edit: It might take me a while to respond, but I promise I will try to include all nations who ask.
Much appreciated for the link. I was not aware of the plagiarism. That's definitely a good reason to oppose it. I'm surprised it was allowed to go to the debate floor.
This kind of thing has happened before. If I recall correctly, they can't stop it once it reaches vote. Instead, admin would probably delete it if it passed.
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