Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:09 am
You don't want to get QoD started on the chamber-that-shall-not-be-named (well, can't be named)
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
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Desmosthenes and Burke wrote:While I am not thrilled, I cannot come up with any sound reason to keep a rule that (1)GenSec flatly admits they have less than zero interest in enforcing, (2) cannot possibly be enforced in an objective and even manner, and (3) would essentially prohibit the GA from passing any resolution at all if any real attempt was made at enforcement in an objective and even manner.
Hegvanigson wrote:So.. fascism will be allowed?
Wallenburg wrote:Untecna wrote:It's not outlawed by the WA as of current, but ideological proposals have never actually passed, so... I doubt there would be any ban at all in the WA.
This is a very bad argument. "Ideological proposals", whatever the hell that means, have never passed because they are illegal, not because they are unpopular. To cite the history of the WA, throughout which they have been illegal, as evidence for their lack of viability in a future legal setting is to speculate based on nothing but your own personal feelings about them.
Untecna wrote:Wallenburg wrote:This is a very bad argument. "Ideological proposals", whatever the hell that means, have never passed because they are illegal, not because they are unpopular. To cite the history of the WA, throughout which they have been illegal, as evidence for their lack of viability in a future legal setting is to speculate based on nothing but your own personal feelings about them.
I never explicitly stated that they were not unpopular, and wherever you're getting that from, I'd like to know.
Anyway, the fact that they are illegal now and often poorly made, as well as being first attempts by newbies, is a combination of why they have not been passed now and likely will not pass in the future.
If you look at the proposals that were stopped at this rule, loads were terribly written and by general newbies in the WA, who didn't know any better.
I'm speculating based on what actually pops out of this tiny area of the WA, not my "feelings" about said proposals.
Untecna wrote:Wallenburg wrote:This is a very bad argument. "Ideological proposals", whatever the hell that means, have never passed because they are illegal, not because they are unpopular. To cite the history of the WA, throughout which they have been illegal, as evidence for their lack of viability in a future legal setting is to speculate based on nothing but your own personal feelings about them.
"Ideological proposal" refers here to any proposal that involves banning ideologies or enforcing ideologies. Pretty simple meaning.
Anne of Cleves in TNP wrote:Laka Strolistandiler wrote:Good thing I left a year ago lol WA majors enforcing their values on everyone instance #53537483
I’ll just quote my response to someone who made a similar remark:Anne of Cleves in TNP wrote:I disagree, since the WA has to intervene ICly to establish important international laws and opinions on nations/regions that are crucial to keeping the multiverse sane or crucial for recognizing nations/regions with good or bad reputations. For example, if the GA did not intervene in the civil rights category, who will? If national law is made on civil rights, people will still violate that law regardless, yet are less likely to violate international law on civil rights (maybe). And OOCly, the WA staff has to maintain the OOC laws for proposals, otherwise there would be thousands of low-quality and possibly offensive resolutions and the WA would be an anarchic mess.
TLDR: The WA can be considered invasive, but if so, it’s for good reasons ICly and OOCly