[Draft] Ban on Bride Burning

[Lorrana]

I know, it's kinda short

Current Draft: Draft 1

Ban On Bride Burning
Category: Moral Decency
Strength: Significant

The General Assembly of the World Assembly,

Acknowledging the action of bride burning, where a husband sets on fire and murders his wife after not receiving enough in dowry.

Horrified by the disrespect towards women and expectation of payment shown by people who perform bride burning

Appalled by the way the aforementioned grooms throw around human life.

Defining "bride burning" as the action of a husband setting on fire and mudering his wife after not receiving enough in dowry, as stated above.

Defining "dowry" as payment given by a bride's family to a groom after a marriage is formed.

Requires member states to make bride burning illegal.

Requires member states to punish people who perform bride burning with at least the severity of the way that they punish people accused of murder

[Tinhampton]

Support in principle.

Please define "this."

[Lorrana]

Support in principle.

Please define "this."

I replaced "this" with "bride burning", if that's what you're suggesting

[Aredita]

You say the same thing over and over again. Also, you don't give any evidence of why this is bad.

Requires member states to make bride burning illegal, if not already illegal.

What is the point of this if it is already illegal in some places?

This is a start to something, but right now, needs a lot of work.

[Lorrana]

This is a start to something, but right now, needs a lot of work.

Agreed, please don't hesitate to give feedback as I am new to writing proposals

[Grays Harbor]

Requires member states to punish people who perform bride burning with at least the severity of the way that they punish people accused of murder

Silly me, I know, but I always thought burning somebody alive was murder.

What is the point of this exercise? Why does a single specific type of murder need it’s own legislation? Murder is fecking murder.

[Separatist Peoples]

"While I agree with my colleagues that this is not necessary, I disagree with their analysis that bride burning is necessarily murder and is therefore necessarily illegal. Murder is an unlawful killing. Where the law makes such killing legal, it is not murder. Ergo, where bride burning is legal, it is not murder, however shocking the practice is. Any argument predicated on murder already being illegal is a poor argument."

[Ardiveds]

"Wouldn't a nation be in violation of CoCR if they did allow bride burnings, since by the definition used here, there is a clear legal discrimination."

[Imperium Anglorum]

"While I agree with my colleagues that this is not necessary, I disagree with their analysis that bride burning is necessarily murder and is therefore necessarily illegal. Murder is an unlawful killing. Where the law makes such killing legal, it is not murder. Ergo, where bride burning is legal, it is not murder, however shocking the practice is. Any argument predicated on murder already being illegal is a poor argument."

Elsie Mortimer Wellesley. We concur with this analysis.

[Wallenburg]

Seeing as the proposal acknowledges this as already illegal, I see absolutely no value in legislating on the matter.

[Potted Plants United]

Acknowledging the action of bride burning, where a husband sets on fire and murders his wife after not receiving enough in dowry.

OOC: The keyword is in the definition. If it's murder, it's by definition already not a legal action.