[CHALLENGE] Freedom Of Opinion And Belief

[Bananaistan]

Public challenge thread

Debate thread

Freedom Of Opinion And Belief
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Civil Rights

Strength: Significant

Proposed by: Tinhampton

Whereas brainwashing is bad and wrong, the General Assembly hereby:

forbids member states from:

criminalising the holding of any opinion, even when the expression of that opinion would constitute a crime,

criminalising the status of possessing or lacking any arbitrary or reductive characteristic, and

requiring any of their inhabitants to affirm, express, retract or reject any opinion or belief, even if those inhabitants sincerely hold those opinions or beliefs,

prohibits the World Assembly and its agents from discriminating against:

any person or group due to their holding (not necessarily expression) of any opinions or beliefs, nor any arbitrary and reductive characteristics they may possess, and

any government due to any of their actions (except where necessary, or otherwise required by resolution, to ensure that said member complies with international law) or their beliefs,

requires members to permit the holding and expression of facts, however inconvenient, by their inhabitants, and

clarifies that no part of this resolution other than Article a(iii) directly regulates the actual expression of opinions or other speech.

This seems open and shut to me. The challenged proposal requires that member states permit the "expression of facts, however inconvenient". GAR#330 explicitly requires member states to prevent the expression of fact in certain cases.

I vote to hear.

[Separatist Peoples]

Seconded.

[Sierra Lyricalia]

Agreed on both "yes there's a case here" and "yes, the challenge is correct."

[Bananaistan]

There's prolly no need to hang around on this?

I vote illegal.

[Bears Armed]

Illegal.

[Separatist Peoples]

I'll vote illegal, too.

[Sierra Lyricalia]

That's a majority for Illegal, then.

I already marked it so in the queue. Thankfully no mod discard this time.

[Bananaistan]

The challenged proposal requires that member states permit the "expression of facts, however inconvenient". GAR#330 explicitly requires member states to prevent the expression of fact in certain cases. Thus we find the challenged proposal illegal under the contradiction rule.

Shorter and sweeter but it was straightforward.

[Bears Armed]

The challenged proposal requires that member states permit the "expression of facts, however inconvenient". GAR#330 explicitly requires member states to prevent the expression of fact in certain cases. Thus we find the challenged proposal illegal under the contradiction rule.

Shorter and sweeter but it was straightforward.

I sign.

[Sierra Lyricalia]

The challenged proposal requires that member states permit the "expression of facts, however inconvenient". GAR#330 explicitly requires member states to prevent the expression of fact in certain cases. Thus we find the challenged proposal illegal under the contradiction rule.

Shorter and sweeter but it was straightforward.

I sign.

Ditto

[Separatist Peoples]

I forgot but I sign.

[Sierra Lyricalia]

Posted.