Argument: Although I understand the need for moral decency and compassion on the battle field, I am simply confused as to how this bill provides this. This bill is too broad, poorly defined, and offers no real protection.
[Definitions]
1. Let us start with the defining of "Wartime", which applies to two and only two armed entities. This creates the circumstance where a genocide against an unarmed populace is not considered a period of conflict. It also means that a war between three or more armed entities is also not a period of conflict. So, effectively, this bill will only ever apply to two and only two nations fighting it out. If a third party enters this conflict, this bill becomes obsolete.
2.Worst still, this bill is also hindered by the misspelling of the word "casualties" when defining the term "Field of Battle". Effectually, at this point, this bill become completely obsolete. Though, even if it did not, this bill is filled with additional issues.
[Issues]
1. Now we will get to the additional issues stated at the end of the the definitions section and mentioned in the beginning of this argument. This bill, due to the broadly used terms of "nation" and "state" make it so that this bill applies to all nations within this World Assembly as opposed to the nationstates partaking in the conflict. So now, all World Assembly members must take measures to prevent the desecration of individuals who fall on the field of battle & all World Assembly members are suggested to make provisions for the burial of its citizens and foreigners.
- 1a. Just like how the World Assembly sends Peace Keepers on various missions, we will now have to send World Assembly sanctioned Grave Diggers into conflict zones to bury the dead. . .
- 1b1. Both this nation, and many in this assembly, will be forced to bury the dead of our neighboring nationstates if they so choose to dispose of their dead along our borders. . .
- 1b2. Further-still, this bill acts as a way to prevent the privatization of cemeteries and other burial grounds. . .
2. Due to this bills attack on weapons that mutilate people this bill can also be used as a means to prevent or outright ban the use of explosives and other weapons, be them WMDs or not, that tend to mutilate and/or cause high levels of trauma to combatants on the field of battle. Effectively, it also acts as a poorly written weapons ban.
3. This bills protections are not just limited to World Assembly members. This bill requires that we extend the protections in this bill to non-WA members. This bill only further entices non-WA combatants and terrorists to use deceased bodies as a means of spreading disease or simply booby trapping them for similar effects. I don't want to deal with plagues and limbless soldiers because this nation is forced to comply with this outrageous bill, as a result extending protections to non-WA members that in all honestly will not be reciprocated.
4. As a bit of a closing statement, the purpose of this bill is to prevent soldiers from mutilating the bodies of enemies so the families of said enemies do not have to deal with additional distress after/outside the battlefield. This is a noble goal, though bodies cannot always be returned to their families. This bill provides caveats for this situation, effectively, burying them (bodies that cannot be returned) would be our responsibility. Though, this brings up and interesting question. If every enemy was hit in the face with a hatchet and we buried them afterward. . . Then simply put, what would it matter? The families would never be harmed because they would never see their dead relative, only the memorial we build (for our enemies, on our land) after they were already buried. Which, simply makes this bill pointless.
HERBY, under the authority of the World Assembly, General Assembly Bill 136 (Convention On Wartime Deceased) shall be rendered null & void!