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| Rights of Sapient Species | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 5 2016, 09:42 AM (189 Views) | |
| Excidium Planetis | Jan 5 2016, 09:42 AM Post #1 |
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Rights of Sapient Beings A resolution to improve Category: Human Rights Strength: Strong Proposed by: [nation]Excidium Planetis[/nation] Description: The General Assembly, Applauding the efforts to secure rights for all sapient beings, regardless of race or species, and the many efforts not to limit such rights to only beings of the homo sapiens species; Nevertheless Concerned at the many attempts to restrict the rights of sapient beings for purely racial reasons, including but not limited to attempts to restrict the rights of sapient machines and an attempt to make human decisions necessary in the warfare of non-human species; Believing that to secure once and for all the rights of sapient beings everywhere, a resolution is needed to affirm these rights; Defines:
And Hereby Declares that any sapient beings found inside member nations are not to be denied any of the rights guaranteed to humans or sapient beings by existing international laws, unless these rights threaten the survival of the beings to be granted the rights, or unless said rights are specifically probihibited by an unrepealed WA resolution passed prior to this resolution. No member nation may discriminate against sapient beings for reasons of race or species alone. Mandates that member nations extend the same rights given to humans below the age of majority and mentally ill or mentally disabled humans to the sapient beings below the age of majority and mentally disabled or mentally ill beings of the same species as a sapient being, unless these rights threaten the survival of the beings to be granted the rights, or unless said rights are specifically probihibited by an unrepealed WA resolution passed prior to this resolution. Age of majority is to be determined for individual species based on equivalent degree of maturation. Requires that in defining legal age of consent and legal age of marriage, member nations must define legal age for individual species; the legal age cannot be lower than the average age of onset of reproductive maturation for that species, and all legal ages between species should be set at an equivalent degree of maturation. Beings that do not reproduce sexually are exempted from this clause. Clarifies that it is the responsibility of individual member nations to determine whether a given physical entity is a sapient being, but that such methods of determination must apply equally to humans and any other entities examined, and must also be passable by all healthy, normal, adult humans. Tests must not be based on the anatomy or genetics of a species, but shall be based solely on the mental capabilities of species tested. Further Affirms that sapient beings shall be recognized in the eyes of the World Assembly as living beings, regardless of biological status. |
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| Excidium Planetis | Jan 5 2016, 09:59 AM Post #2 |
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For those of you who don't know, I am the author of GA#338 "Protection of Sapient Rights" and the co-author of its repeal. "Protection of Sapient Rights" was repealed due to numerous flaws, which have been corrected in this new proposal. Rights of Sapient Species, like its forerunner, mandates that nations extend the rights given to humans to non-human sapients. The definition of "sapient being" was updated to be less easily misinterpreted and the clause detailing how a species would determined to be sapient was also altered to further prevent loopholes and "creative compliance". Most importantly, RoSS, unlike PoSR, grants rights to mentally disabled beings and to children of sapient beings. This change was very important, because it npt obly corrected what was PoSR's greatest flaw, but now also serves to correct a flaw in the recently passed "AI Coexistence Protocol", in which computers who are involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward are not AI by the resolution's definition. RoSS will ensure that sapient computers who are mentally disabled will retain their rights, even though those computers no longer meet GA#354's definition of AI. Additionally, there's some other stuff like exceptions to rights if the rights threaten a species' survival, and a "prior legislation" exception to prevent contradiction of "AI Coexistence Protocol" if a nation tries to make a sapient self-replicating nanobot within the restrictions of AICP but then finds they need to give those nanobots rights they don't have with the restrictions in place. Anyways, unless you're just plain xenophobic, I don't see any reason for not approving of this. |
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| Libetarian Republics | Jan 5 2016, 05:06 PM Post #3 |
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| Guy | Jan 5 2016, 06:44 PM Post #4 |
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Does the definition require all three elements to be met, or only one of them? Is it 'and' or 'or'? |
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| Excidium Planetis | Jan 5 2016, 11:30 PM Post #5 |
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All three elements. Some edits to condense the definition lost some of the original clarity, but in the absence of an "or", the plainest reading would align with my intent, that is, all three points must be met to be Sapient. Although, if your government opted to decide that only one point must be met to be given rights, that's your governments decision, I guess. |
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| Evolu Tanis | Jan 6 2016, 03:36 AM Post #6 |
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Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal - A narrow and a tall one.
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| Christian Democrats | Jan 6 2016, 08:12 AM Post #7 |
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Against. First, it's silly for the World Assembly to extend human rights to non-humans; this is a national issue. Second, the word "probihibited" is a glaring spelling error that is present not once but twice in this proposal. |
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| Excidium Planetis | Jan 6 2016, 03:29 PM Post #8 |
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F***. Why does autocorrect change words I intend to write, but never catches actual errors? Oh well. Too late to pull it now, it's practically passed. |
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| Libetarian Republics | Jan 7 2016, 06:30 AM Post #9 |
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