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Category: Moral Decency, Strength: Mild
The General Assembly,
Recognizing that the deceased, while no longer sentient, deserve some respect for their life accomplishment and service to their nation,
Aware that there have been significant advances in technology which allows one to reanimate a corpse and brain or establish a link between a brain and computer,
Cognizant that along with these technological advancements, there are techniques to alter a brain so that their personality, character, or memories can be altered for personal, government, or other uses,
Hereby
1. Defines "alteration" and "alter" by any process which can change a person's personality and character, determined by psychological testing, from before the process to after the changing process,
2. Condemns member states which allow alteration of the formerly deceased human mind,
3. Encourages member states to cease any current government program branches whose main purpose is to alter formerly dead human brains (still allowing the banking, life continuation, and research of minds),
4. Prohibits any further such mind alteration programs to occur, unless it is to cure a mental disease, or to be in compliance with any previous passed resolution, and
5. Mandates that member states should discourage and condemn private firms and companies which practice the alteration of formerly deceased human minds.
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Jeremus, foreign relations minister of TPO: "In The Pandarian Order, we respect the dead, and while we do not personally have the technology to download minds to computers, are aware that other nations may. To increase our moral decency, we should not take advantage of the dead, and definitely not alter their minds to further our goals. While our government does show interest in allowing our formerly deceased to live in simulated realities if their bodies have withered away, we do not want to impose our interests or experiments to change them into a person they are not; for what is a man without self-determination? Even a slave can hold on to their personality if their bodies are tied to work for life. It would be quite dismaying for the friends and family of the deceased to see that a once calm and mild-mannered person change to an extravagant and boisterous one. I hope this draft resolution appeals to you, and as always critique and feedback is encouraged."