Wallenburg wrote:I truly am sorry that people disagree with the premise of this and several other already passed resolutions. However, I cannot reasonably accept the alternative argument that all members just automatically and fully comply with World Assembly resolutions, presumably because "that's how stats work" or "because the TG the WA bot sent me said so".
Sierra Lyricalia wrote:Aclion wrote:Noncompliance is already part of existing resolutions. That ship has sailed. It's canon now.
OOC: Yes. A limited degree of non-compliance must be assumed by anyone thinking (hoping?) that the General Assembly is remotely realistic and not a campy exercise in utter fantasy. My thoughts on this are basically articulated by
this very thinly disguised puppet as well as Gruen's [TDSR] post just below. In an imperfect
world multiverse, not everything happens the way the enlightened authorities decree it shall; and so for whatever reason, be it "
the wording of laws, judicial interpretation, government corruption, police budgets, police discretion/corruption, criminal competence, citizen attitudes, unforeseen cleverness or technical skill by criminals, [or any of] a dozen other factors that complicate the dirty business of actually ensuring societal compliance...", it's reasonable to assume that
sometimes there are people or nations who need to be brought into line with global consensus.
OOCI am not (and never have been) one of the people trying to claim that the automatic nature of OOC compliance means that IC compliance must also be automatic & complete. I just hold that there must be some sort of treaty or charter that nations ratify IC when their players click the ‘Join’ button IC, that there’s presumably some mechanism for “encouraging” compliance included in
that legal document
(Personally I like to think that, although nothing is done OOC, at the IC level any member nations whose governments are convicted of blatant non-compliance have their membership privileges suspended until they make amends…), and that relying solely on resolutions to enforce compliance -- when there’s ultimately nothing
except for that presumed treaty or charter to force compliance with
those ‘enforcing’ resolutions anyway -- seems fairly pointless. GAR #440’s economic sanctions might be better than nothing in that respect, but if you reject the idea of an underlying charter or treaty then even those sanctions depend on the willingness to comply of any member nations that actually have significant trade with the targeted nations…
And while I concede that
some member nations’ legal systems might be too corrupt or ineffective to hear these cases properly and that introducing WA courts to hear cases
where and when that has happened might therefore be reasonable, I (and IC the Bears, too) still consider this proposed resolution making those WA courts potentially the
first resort for
all relevant cases — rather than just a system that can be invoked
if national courts fail to operate properly — to be an insult to the many member nations whose legal systems
do work properly.