WA Doctrine of First Contact
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.
Category: Moral Decency | Strength: Mild | Proposed by: Stash Kroh
Description:
The General Assembly abroad,
Recognizing the existence of many remote societies who have been discovered over the years living on various continents, islands and distant planetary systems without any prior knowledge of intelligent life living among them,
Deeply Disturbed by the actions of governments in the past who have invaded these said territories by aggressive force with colonization in mind while treating the natives as savages –- all the while using deceptive tactics to benefit economically and politically from them,
Believing those to be intolerable actions for member nations to conduct, who should respect these previously isolated societies –- not exploit their naivety,
Defining for the purposes of this document, an isolated society as a community of inhabitants that is not affiliated with the WA and as yet to either..
(a) Scientifically prove the existence of a civilization besides their own,
(b) Travel to another civilization through their own means, without any support for the transportation from outsiders,
(c) See Operative Clause 3,
Hereby:
1. Forbids member nations and their citizens from claiming property within the area the isolated society is secluded to -- no matter the size or extent of the homeland;
2. Entrusts the World Assembly with the immediate discontinuation of the following atrocities against isolated societies by member nations and their citizens ...
(a)Harming an inhabitant through any direct physical, mental or virtual means;
(b)Dooming an entire society by interaction (as opposed to a lack of interaction or intervention) through any physical, mental, social, environmental, cultural or virtual means to significantly increase their risk of extinction;
(c)Assimilating or converting inhabitants to a new religion, or cultural belief system by either threating them with penalties, harm or social isolation if they do not convert;
(d) Reducing the social, political or economic freedoms granted to an inhabitant by the government, or lack of government in an isolated society;
(e) Establishing any sort of dependency between the isolated society and a member nation, that would significantly increase the isolated society's risk of extinction, if the member nation were to cease to exist unexpectedly;
(f) Preventing a member of an isolated society from leaving their homeland;
3. Suspends an isolated society's validity for the proposal's definition of "isolated society", if any inhabitant of the said community forcefully revokes a citizen of a member nation's freedom to physically leave the isolated society, while being fully aware, and cognizant of this document, the WA Doctrine of First Contact, and its content;
4. Creates the General Assembly Universal Registrar of Isolated Societies (GAURIS), as a division of the Coordination of Space Consortium (COSC) to solemnly:
(I) Record the existence of each isolated society to have been discovered;
(II) Archive the relative, and/or absolute location, and quantitative size of each isolated society's homeland;
(III) Manage timely reports regarding these civilizations' eligibility for isolated society status -- including which of the aforementioned definitional points, regarding isolated societies, for which they qualify for;
5. Reminds member nations that they are the ambassadors for the rest of civilization when first contacted by these isolated societies thus the World Assembly encourages treating these isolated societies with respect and dignity.
Okay, Ard did give a little speech about the idea's legality here -- which might be of interest to some. Basically the issue is that I can't legislate anything to control a non-WA nation in anyway, shape or form -- thus the proposal must be about how WA members approach them. So, keeping that in mind, please feel free to discuss, debate and rip this draft to shreds if you so choose to.
And do you think the category/strength fits? I think so, but I'd like to hear your opinions.