Glen-Rhodes wrote:This is a question that has popped up only a few times since I've been here, but has never really been answered:
Are definitions automatically limited to single resolutions, or do they apply to all World Assembly resolutions if not otherwise stated?
I think Kenny's got it: HoC is the stumbling-block for any attempt to make a definition universally applicable, in the sense of "no need to write this out again, we already know it from GA #666". If you have "child" defined one way in a resolution about child labour, and another way in a resolution about child welfare, then each would apply in its appropriate setting.
If you have a definition in an existing resolution, and a proposal is submitted with a completely opposed, contradictory definition, then that would be grounds for deleting the new proposal for contradiction.
(I've just wiped out the minor philosophical treatise about definitions I'd written here, but what it boiled down to was: keep an eye on the little beggars, they're dead sneaky.)
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Zemnaya Svoboda: A discussion about
why there are rules at all is a bit off-topic here. This thread is for how the rules that exist are applied.
As to this question -- How can Punk Reloaded figure out what he would need to change for his proposal to be acceptable to Moderation? -- he can read the rules, he can read the passed resolutions, he can post his proposal as a draft before he submits it and he can make such alterations as seem to be genuinely helpful, ignoring the rest unless he can make them a hook to hang a favourable argument on.
On your implied question -- why do people bother making comments like the one you've linked to? -- not all delegations are as universally full of sweetness and light as my noble Ardchoillean team.
The GA delegations play politics as well as their other activities. Snarking about a proposal that you think would disadvantage your nation is one way of exerting psychological pressure on the writer to back away from submitting it: if it's never submitted, you won't have to go to the effort of lobbying against it.