[Abandoned/Vampire RP not valid] Safety from Cordyceps

[Sauvage]

Draft 3.5

General Assembly
International Security
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Safety from Cordyceps

NOTING in recent years the nations of the known world are attacked by some variation of zombie every October.

DEFINING
1. Zombie, as a individual who is diseased or otherwise controlled by a unknown and/or known infection of the brain that causes violent and even sometimes cannibalistic behavior.
2. Cordycep Humanus, A genus of ascomycete fungi that has evolved to effect vertebrata sub-phylum.
3. Cordycep infection, as a infection of the brain in various species, including the sapient population of any given country that is caused by a fungal kind. Promoting cannibalistic or violent behavior. A subcategory of Zombie.
4. Cord Mail, any microscopic or parasitic based lifeform that is known to cause symptoms of a cordycep.
5. Fort, a location occupied by troops and surrounded by defensive works, such as walls and ditches.

RECOGNIZING that these outbreaks are prone to spread effectively in densely populated or industrial areas.

DISMAYED that despite it being an almost pre-determined time, there is no preparation for a possible infection.

FURTHER NOTING that this is mostly due to low hygiene and a failure to have a premeditated plan to contain the outbreak of zombie causing microorganisms or pathogens.

The World Assembly enforces the following

PERMITTING member nation citizens from killing those fitting the definition of a Cordycep without being charged with murder of any degree or manslaughter. This should only be effective in the case of the infected individuals exhibiting behavior lethal to one's own person or fellow citizen.

REQUIRES
1. Member nations to promote private and public organizations to keep a Cord Mail free environment.
2. Member nations to take crop, water and livestock to be sampled for any harmful products or Cord Mail that could cause a cordycep humanus based infection.
3. Member Nations to assign a assembly that will plan for and organize the citizen and combatant population in the case of a cordycep infection. The objective of this committee is the containment of infected individuals, and research of a cure. As well as the safety of those not yet infected.
4. Member nations to establish forts or other safe haven in appropriate areas away from densely populated areas that can house large amounts of uninfected citizens in the case of an infection. These positions are to hold enough practical supplies for the long term survival of uninfected individuals. All infected individuals are to be turned away if asking for entry.

ENCOURAGES nations that can contain and effectively hold infected research a possible cure and rehabilitation.

Draft 3.0

General Assembly
International Security
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Safety from Cordyceps

NOTING that in the past two years as of the writing of this resolution that every October the nations of the known world are attacked by some variation of zombie.

RECOGNIZING that these outbreaks are very prone to spread most effectively in densely populated or industrial areas.

FURTHER NOTING that this is due to low hygiene and a failure to have a premeditated plan to contain the outbreak of zombie causing microorganisms or pathogens.

DEFINING
1. Zombie, as a individual who is diseased or otherwise controlled by a unknown and/or known infection of the brain that causes violent and even sometimes cannibalistic behavior.
2. Cordycep Humanus, A genus of ascomycete fungi that has evolved to effect vertebrata sub-phylum.
3. Cordycep infection, as a infection of the brain in various species, including the sapient population of any given country that is caused by a fungal kind. Promoting cannibalistic or violent behavior. A subcategory of Zombie.
4. Cord Mail, any microscopic or parasitic based lifeform that is known to cause symptoms of a cordycep.
5. Fort, a location occupied by troops and surrounded by defensive works, such as walls and ditches.

The World Assembly enforces the following

PERMITTING member nation citizens from killing those fitting the definition of a Cordycep without being charged with murder of any degree or manslaughter. This should only be effective in the case of the infected individuals exhibiting behavior threatening to fellow citizens.

REQUIRES
1. Member nations to promote private and public organizations to keep a Cord Mail free environment.
2. Member nations to take crop, water and livestock to be sampled for any harmful products or Cord Mail that could cause a infection that fits the definition of a cordycep.
3. Member Nations to assign a assembly that will plan for and organize the citizen and combatant population in the case of a infection. The objective of this committee is the containment of infected individuals. As well as the safety of those not yet infected.
4. Member nations to establish forts or other safe haven in appropriate areas away from densely populated areas that can house large amounts of uninfected citizens in the case of an infection. These positions are to hold enough practical supplies for the long term survival of uninfected individuals. All infected individuals are to be turned away if asking for entry.

Draft 2.0

General Assembly
Health
A resolution to modify universal standards of healthcare.

Safety from Cordyceps

NOTING that in the past two years as of the writing of this resolution that every October the nations of the known world are attacked by some variation of zombie.

RECOGNIZING that these outbreaks are very prone to spread most effectively in densely populated or industrial areas.

FURTHER NOTING that this is due to low hygiene and a failure to have a premeditated plan to contain the outbreak within these areas.

The World Assembly enforces the following

DEFINING
1. Zombie as a individual who is diseased or otherwise controlled by a unknown and/or known infection of the brain that causes violent and even sometimes cannibalistic behavior.
2. Cordyceps, as a infection of the brain in various species, including the sentient population of any given country that is caused by fungus. Promoting cannibalistic or violent behavior.
3. Germ, any microscopic or parasitic based lifeform that is known to cause symptoms of a zombie or Cordycep.

PERMITTING member nation citizens from killing those fitting the definition of a zombie without being charged with murder of any degree or manslaughter. This should only be effective in the case of the infected individuals exhibiting behavior threatening to fellow citizens.

REQUIRING
1. Member nations to promote private and public organizations to keep a germ free environment.
2. Member nations to run crops, water and livestock to be sampled for any harmful products or germs that could cause a infection that fits the definition of a zombie.
3. Member Nations to assign a assembly that will plan for and organize the citizen and combatant population in the case of a infection. The objective of this committee is the containment of infected individuals. As well as the safety of those not yet infected.
4. Member nations to establish forts or other safe haven in appropriate areas away from densely populated areas that can house large amounts of citizens in the case of an infection.

Draft 1.0

General Assembly
Health
A resolution to modify universal standards of healthcare.

Safety from Cordyceps

NOTING that in the past two years as of the writing of this resolution that every October the nations of the known world are attacked by some variation of zombie.

RECOGNIZING that these outbreaks are very prone to spread most effectively in densely populated or industrial areas.

FURTHER NOTING that this is due to low hygiene and a failure to have a premeditated plan to contain the outbreak within these areas.

The World Assembly enforces the following

DEFINING
1. Zombie as a individual who is diseased or otherwise controlled by a unknown infection of the brain.
2. Cordyceps, as a infection of the brain in various species, including the sentient population of any given country that is caused by fungus. Promoting cannibalistic or violent behavior.

PERMITTING member nation citizens from killing those fitting the definition of a zombie without being charged with murder or any other crimes that follow the death of an individual.

REQUIRING
1. Member nations to promote private and public organizations to keep a germ (Including Spore) free environment.
2. Member nations to run crops, water and livestock to be sampled for any harmful products or germs (Including spores) that could cause a infection that fits the definition of a zombie.
3. Member Nations to assign a assembly that will plan for and organize the citizen and combatant population in the case of a infection.
4. Member nations to establish forts in a appropriate areas away from densely populated areas that can house large amounts of citizens in the case of an infection.

This is not a joke, though if you find humor in it I don't blame you.

[Gruenberg]

Ok, if it's not a joke, then it's already covered by Epidemic Prevention Act and Preparing for Disasters, and contradicts The Charter of Civil Rights.

~ Gruenberg
Certified Humourless Pisskidney

[Sauvage]

-snip-

[Sauvage]

Ok, if it's not a joke, then it's already covered by Epidemic Prevention Act and Preparing for Disasters, and contradicts The Charter of Civil Rights.

~ Gruenberg
Certified Humourless Pisskidney

Point out the specific line that contradicts my proposal from TCoCR

This is a draft after all.

[Gruenberg]

PERMITTING member nation citizens from killing those fitting the definition of a zombie without being charged with murder or any other crimes that follow the death of an individual.

Is a contradiction of

b ) Unprovoked violence against or intimidation of any person on the grounds outlined in clause c) of article 1 of this resolution shall be a civil cause and criminal offense in all member states.

[Araraukar]

Point out the specific line that contradicts my proposal from TCoCR

In addition to point raised above:

PERMITTING member nation citizens from killing those fitting the definition of a zombie without being charged with murder or any other crimes that follow the death of an individual.

Also runs into CoCR's

a ) All inhabitants of member states are equal in status in law and under its actions, and have the right to equal treatment and protection by the nation they inhabit or in which they are currently present.

Since this:

This is a reply posted in utmost sobriety: the Hive Mind RESCINDS the ruling that CoCR doesn't cover non-humans. It does, if they're "inhabitants of member states".

Means CoCR applies for all inhabitants, not just the ones whose brain-infesting parasite is of a known variety - and you can't even argue "but they're not alive", if you refer to "killing zombies".

OOC: There's a reason we have the Joke Proposals thread. Use it.

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PERMITTING member nation citizens from killing those fitting the definition of a zombie without being charged with murder or any other crimes that follow the death of an individual.

Is a contradiction of

b ) Unprovoked violence against or intimidation of any person on the grounds outlined in clause c) of article 1 of this resolution shall be a civil cause and criminal offense in all member states.

Hmmm... well, unless one encounters a horde of undead vegetarians (an interesting concept) or pacifist zombies (which seems unlikely, even in our nation), it's presumed that defending oneself against a connoisseur of brains would not fit the definition of "unprovoked violence".

[Gruenberg]

Hmmm... well, unless one encounters a horde of undead vegetarians (an interesting concept) or pacifist zombies (which seems unlikely, even in our nation), it's presumed that defending oneself against a connoisseur of brains would not fit the definition of "unprovoked violence".

Of course that could be the case. But this proposal would grant immunity to "any" crime, including unprovoked violence.

[Araraukar]

it's presumed that defending oneself against a connoisseur of brains would not fit the definition of "unprovoked violence".

However, according to this joke of a proposal:

DEFINING
1. Zombie as a individual who is diseased or otherwise controlled by a unknown infection of the brain.

*snip*

PERMITTING member nation citizens from killing those fitting the definition of a zombie without being charged with murder or any other crimes that follow the death of an individual.

The definition of a zombie has nothing to do with cannibalism. You might only need to have a new variant of encephalitis to fit into the definition, since inflammation of the brain often leads to the disease controlling your body and changing your behaviour.

OOC: Interesting case in point.

EDIT: You can blame my friend for this...
Q: "What do vegetarian zombies want?"
A: "Graaaaaaains."

[Sierra Lyricalia]

Point out the specific line that contradicts my proposal from TCoCR

This is a draft after all.

Very well. Relevant sections in bluish.

Article 1.

a ) All inhabitants of member states are equal in status in law and under its actions, and have the right to equal treatment and protection by the nation they inhabit or in which they are currently present.

b ) All inhabitants of member states are entitled to rights secured to them in international law and the law of the nation they inhabit or in which they are currently present.

c ) All inhabitants of member states have the right not to be and indeed must not be discriminated against on grounds including sex, race, ethnicity, nationality, skin color, language, economic or cultural background, physical or mental disability or condition, religion or belief system, sexual orientation or sexual identity, or any other arbitrarily assigned and reductive categorisation which may be used for the purposes of discrimination, except for compelling practical purposes, such as hiring only female staff to work with battered women who have sought refuge from their abusers.

...

e ) The application of both emergency legal measures and Martial law during periods of national crisis must also respect the provisions of this resolution.


Article 2.

a ) Unfair and unreasonable discrimination, on the grounds outlined in clause c) of article 1 of this resolution, in private employment, housing, education, employment benefits, compensations and access to services provided to the general public shall be prohibited by all member states.

b ) Unprovoked violence against or intimidation of any person on the grounds outlined in clause c) of article 1 of this resolution shall be a civil cause and criminal offense in all member states.

...

In fact quite a lot of CoCR seems to prohibit what you're advocating. Now, the "compelling practical purpose" clause might save some of it, such as your proposal to build secured bunkers for exclusively uninfected citizens to shelter in; but allowing the wholesale slaughter of so-called "zombies" when the latter are simply standing around, not assaulting anyone, clearly violates Article 2, § b. If immediate self defense is in order, that will be obvious; but until they actually attack, I'm afraid the undead are subject to the same legal protections as the living. Unless you allow your military and police forces to randomly kill everyone they see during times of martial "law," orders to wipe out zombie nests using lethal force are illegal.

And this part:

3. Member Nations to assign a assembly that will plan for and organize the citizen and combatant population in the case of a infection.

is per se a plot to cause part of the population to commit mass murder against another part of the population - this is clearly prohibited by Article 1, §§ a-b.

You'd have more success mandating that nations draw up emergency plans for cases of invasion (which can be adapted to cover zombie infestation, but do not out-and-out violate basic human rights laws), and there are several possibilities for pre-emptive legislation on biohazards and cure research. These are reasonable and laudable goals; whereas active preparation for citizens to slaughter each other is simply beyond the pale of a civilized society.

[Grumpy Cats (Ancient)]

Why stop the zombie apocalypse? Less people petting me.

[Araraukar]

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OOC: Please, for the sake of my retinae, make it some colour that's visible against white without having to highlight the text.

[Sauvage]

All of this flowing information has brought much of my rather poor wording to my attention. Please wait until I can properly revise.

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The definition of a zombie has nothing to do with cannibalism. You might only need to have a new variant of encephalitis to fit into the definition, since inflammation of the brain often leads to the disease controlling your body and changing your behaviour.

Fair point, Ambassador. In any case, this is horribly written from a stylistic point as well ("PERMITTING member nation citizens from killing those fitting the definition of a zombie"?) and imposes a ridiculous threshold in the requirement to "to keep a germ (Including Spore) free environment". So... no more penicillin? And how do we eliminate all the E coli in the world? Very poorly written indeed.

[Arcturus Novus]

I was unaware rampant fungal infections hurt anyone other than ants and damp feet. However, the wanton murder of infected individuals seems unnecessary. We should attempt to treat any infected possible, assuming this Cordyceps fungus is the cause for the October infestations.

[Sierra Lyricalia]

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OOC: Please, for the sake of my retinae, make it some colour that's visible against white without having to highlight the text.

OOC: My apologies: that color looked from here like it'd be more readable than straight #00FF00; and I didn't want it to look like the green linktext color. Fixed for more universal visibility.

[Sauvage]

The representative of Sauvage would finish writing up a second draft with a flourish of his quill and a blow on the paper. He places it in the hand of one of the world assembly officials as they put it on the projector screen.

"I'm sorry my fellow delegates and members, you could consider me an amature, though Sauvage does have the interests of the people of the world at heart. We have surmised this october will be one of the most devastating of all previous ones. With the release of the new game 'The Last of Them' featuring Eli and Jessica, we cannot help but fear that the Cordyceps present in the game can be a reality. Our research is quite primitive however, considering we still use muskets in warfare. Though we have seen parasites and other such evolve in the past to kill humans simply because they are at the top of the food chain in most cases. Mad Moo Disease, the white death." He shivers. Dreadful fleas them, and of course the malaria outbreak of 102 Before Contact (BC). All these have shown to have come from smaller animals to jump to the most abundant and seemingly weak species on the cellular level to use them as their fuel."

OOC Though Gruenberg and Araraukar bring up an interesting point, but wouldn't the infection technically be enslaving the population? Wouldn't that nullify "Unprovoked violence against"

Any additions or holes someone would like to bring up?

[Araraukar]

You want to be taken seriously? Then write a serious proposal But to humour you this once... *pulls out a vivisection knife*

Health
A resolution to modify universal standards of healthcare.

No way no how does this fit into Health. It takes away human rights, regulates agriculture and possibly increases military spending. That's 3 possible categories. You should pick one and rewrite to it.

Safety from Cordyceps

Misleading title, I'd argue. What you mean is "Safety from Zombies".

NOTING that in the past two years as of the writing of this resolution that every October the nations of the known world are attacked by some variation of zombie.

Proof? According to our history records, this has never happened. [OOC: Possible metagaming violation to reference a gameside event.]

FURTHER NOTING that this is due to low hygiene and a failure to have a premeditated plan to contain the outbreak within these areas.

Only if you're ignoring the Epidemic Response Act and common sense.

The World Assembly enforces the following

...so even definitions are now enforced? Interesting.

DEFINING
1. Zombie as a individual who is diseased or otherwise controlled by a unknown and/or known infection of the brain that causes violent and even sometimes cannibalistic behavior.

How can you tell it's an infection causing violent and cannibalistic behaviour? And what if neither is a crime?

2. Cordyceps, as a infection of the brain in various species, including the sentient population of any given country that is caused by fungus. Promoting cannibalistic or violent behavior.

Sentient [OOC: think regular housecat]? Not sapient [OOC: think human or equivalent]? Also, why the fuck do you define this when you don't use it anywhere in the mandates? Also, Cordyceps is, scientifically, the name of a genus of fungi, not a disease. You don't get to rewrite scientific terms and not expect to be called out on it.

3. Germ, any microscopic or parasitic based lifeform that is known to cause symptoms of a zombie or Cordycep.

Another utterly failed definition.

Noun
germ (plural germs)

1. (biology) The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
2. A pathogenic microorganism.
3. The origin of an idea or project.
4. The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain.

If you don't understand the basics of microbiology and medicine, you shouldn't be trying to write resolutions on the issue.

PERMITTING member nation citizens from killing those fitting the definition of a zombie without being charged with murder of any degree or manslaughter.

Violates at least CoCR.

This should only be effective in the case of the infected individuals exhibiting behavior threatening to fellow citizens.

No. If someone's threatening your fellow citizens, and doing so is a crime in your nation, you should have them arrested and proceed legally.

REQUIRING

REQUIRES, instead, if you for some strange reason want to stuff everything under the same verb. Requiring promoting still does nothing more than promotes.

1. Member nations to promote private and public organizations to keep a germ free environment.

Practically all more complex organic lifeforms require symbiotic micro-organisms. [OOC: Ignoring the bullshit about redefining "germ" earlier.]

2. Member nations to run crops, water and livestock to be sampled for any harmful products or germs that could cause a infection that fits the definition of a zombie.

Run... crops?

3. Member Nations to assign a assembly that will plan for and organize the citizen and combatant population in the case of a infection. The objective of this committee is the containment of infected individuals. As well as the safety of those not yet infected.

So the objective of that committee is... this proposal? If so, it'd be a neat committee-only violation, in a strange ingrown way.

4. Member nations to establish forts or other safe haven in appropriate areas away from densely populated areas that can house large amounts of citizens in the case of an infection.

How? And who's paying for this? And what counts as a "fort" or "safe haven"? And the way that's written, you don't require any separation of infected or noninfected, nor which would be shut into this "forts".

OOC: This exist for a reason: Joke Proposals thread. Use it.

[Sauvage]

No way no how does this fit into Health. It takes away human rights, regulates agriculture and possibly increases military spending. That's 3 possible categories. You should pick one and rewrite to it.

Misleading title, I'd argue. What you mean is "Safety from Zombies".

...so even definitions are now enforced? Interesting.

Sentient [OOC: think regular housecat]? Not sapient [OOC: think human or equivalent]? Also, why the fuck do you define this when you don't use it anywhere in the mandates? Also, Cordyceps is, scientifically, the name of a genus of fungi, not a disease. You don't get to rewrite scientific terms and not expect to be called out on it.

Another utterly failed definition.

REQUIRES, instead, if you for some strange reason want to stuff everything under the same verb. Requiring promoting still does nothing more than promotes.

Run... crops?

Fixed

Only if you're ignoring the Epidemic Response Act and common sense.

Fixed to address specific problem the proposal is actually trying to address.

Violates at least CoCR.

How can you tell it's an infection causing violent and cannibalistic behaviour? And what if neither is a crime?

Both are mandated as a crime under The Charter of Civil Rights Article two, B. "b ) Unprovoked violence against or intimidation of any person on the grounds outlined in clause c) of article 1 of this resolution shall be a civil cause and criminal offense in all member states."

Those who are infected would be assumed to attack those not infected, clause C in article one details that one may not discriminate "on grounds including sex, race, ethnicity, nationality, skin color, language, economic or cultural background, physical or mental disability or condition, religion or belief system, sexual orientation or sexual identity." This would imply they are breaking international law.

If you don't understand the basics of microbiology and medicine, you shouldn't be trying to write resolutions on the issue.

OOC Although it was "IC" I can't help but feel you were serious. Am I required to have a collage degree in something to write about it in an online forum?

No. If someone's threatening your fellow citizens, and doing so is a crime in your nation, you should have them arrested and proceed legally.

One who is committing murder, which is required for them to fit the description of a infected individual. Would be causing lethal harm to the citizen in question then self defense is authorized correct?

So the objective of that committee is... this proposal? If so, it'd be a neat committee-only violation, in a strange ingrown way.

Can you explain further?

How? And who's paying for this? And what counts as a "fort" or "safe haven"? And the way that's written, you don't require any separation of infected or noninfected, nor which would be shut into this "forts".

The nation would pay for it as all nations do? Separation addressed.

[Honor and Glory]

"First off, my nation has never had a 'Zombie' attack, so not every nation in the known 'World' has them. Secondly why does your proposal that's supposedly for 'Safety From Cordyceps' only deal with killing off sick citizens of nations that have these attacks, or hiding. You say nothing about trying to heal the Infected, or searching for a cure for a disease that clearly is a major problem in your nation "

[Sauvage]

"Whah? You mean to say this is only in my own and closely attached nations? Heal the sick?! By the time we can confirm them sick with our rather old technology they have already lost too much of their mind to the fungus, a husk that if cured would never be healed into a functional human."

[Honor and Glory]

"Whah? You mean to say this is only in my own and closely attached nations? Heal the sick?! By the time we can confirm them sick with our rather old technology they have already lost too much of their mind to the fungus, a husk that if cured would never be healed into a functional human."

"How can you be sure they can never be healed into a functional being with your 'rather old technology'? and remember this wont apply to just your nation, you will force nations with the technology that would probably cure this disease to quarantine their people, and turn away the sick who could be saved. While I do not support this proposal, as I am unsure this disease you speak of would even effect my people as we are not human, I would modify

3. Member Nations to assign a assembly that will plan for and organize the citizen and combatant population in the case of a infection. The objective of this committee is the containment of infected individuals. As well as the safety of those not yet infected.

to include the study of this disease, and research of a cure. "

[Separatist Peoples]

"Looks like something best covered at a national level. The Epidemic Prevention Act should cover any diseases crossing national borders, and the treatment of those infected sounds like a national problem. Opposed."

[Goddess Relief Office]

NOTING that in the past two years as of the writing of this resolution that every October the nations of the known world are attacked by some variation of zombie.

Better:
"NOTING in recent years the nations of the known world are attacked by some variation of zombie every October."

RECOGNIZING that these outbreaks are very prone to spread most effectively in densely populated or industrial areas.

A lot of double verbs here. "Very prone" and "most effectively" almost have the same meaning, while "outbreaks" naturally connotes "spreading". There is no need to repeat these ideas. The sentence could be re-written more simply as:

"RECOGNIZING that these outbreaks are more prone to occur in densely populated or industrial areas."

FURTHER NOTING that this is due to low hygiene and a failure to have a premeditated plan to contain the outbreak of zombie causing microorganisms or pathogens.

Low hygiene causes the disease to spread? Umm.., I'm not an expert on zombies but I don't think so.



Also there seems to be a break between your introductory sentences and rest of the proposal. By that I mean you didn't talk about Cordycep and Cordycep Humanus until "definitions". It seems like an after thought.

Maybe introduce it earlier, something like, "FURTHER NOTING that Cordycep Humanus has been found to cause zombism, which then spreads exponentially via direct contact with others. " This would tie your intro to the rest of your proposal nicely. (Rather than jumping into a discussion on hygiene...*rolls eyes*)

~GRO~

[Sauvage]

FURTHER NOTING that this is due to low hygiene and a failure to have a premeditated plan to contain the outbreak of zombie causing microorganisms or pathogens.

Low hygiene causes the disease to spread? Umm.., I'm not an expert on zombies but I don't think so.

The hygiene thing is due to the fact that the particular "type" of zombie, Cordycep, is spread via mold-like fungus and contaminated food.

Though I thank you for the rest of this, it's very helpful.

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-snip-

"The necessary adjustments will be made."

Are you sure your people do not fit the vertebrata sub-phylum?