[Passed] Rainforest Protection Act

[United Federation of Canada]

What I did say is that this resolution implies that rainforests, that are now "protected" under this act are now more important than housing and urban development.

At the risk of sounding very kumbayaish,

Aren't they? Does anyone ever stop to think of the complex, extremely fragile ecosystems that are interconnected with those rainforests? Also as those trees have no voice, shouldn't someone stand up for their rights of "I was here first, long before you"? How would you like it if a bunch of trees came in and burned down your city so they could plant themselves?

Think about it.

[Auralia]

Aren't they? Does anyone ever stop to think of the complex, extremely fragile ecosystems that are interconnected with those rainforests? Also as those trees have no voice, shouldn't someone stand up for their rights of "I was here first, long before you"? How would you like it if a bunch of trees came in and burned down your city so they could plant themselves?

Trees are not persons. They have no rights.

[United Federation of Canada]

Aren't they? Does anyone ever stop to think of the complex, extremely fragile ecosystems that are interconnected with those rainforests? Also as those trees have no voice, shouldn't someone stand up for their rights of "I was here first, long before you"? How would you like it if a bunch of trees came in and burned down your city so they could plant themselves?

Trees are not persons. They have no rights.

Why? What makes them any less an important of a living being than a person? Were they not created by GOD as well Auralia?

Also I am pretty sure I have seen a talking plant around here that may say different. In fact I have seen some weasels, and bears as well. I seriously doubt they enjoy their habitat being burned to the ground.

[Bears Armed]

Also I am pretty sure I have seen a talking plant around here that may say different. In fact I have seen some weasels, and bears as well. I seriously doubt they enjoy their habitat being burned to the ground.

"You think that ALL of us live out in the woods, without artificial shelter, rather than -- as many actually do -- in houses within settlements?!?"

[Three Weasels]

Also I am pretty sure I have seen a talking plant around here that may say different. In fact I have seen some weasels, and bears as well. I seriously doubt they enjoy their habitat being burned to the ground.

And we don't live in forests. Although our homes are built from naturally occurring materials, we are meadow-dwellers. Don't get us wrong, we love tree, it's just we live in meadows that have been civilized. No artificial material.

[Tenebriso]

What I did say is that this resolution implies that rainforests, that are now "protected" under this act are now more important than housing and urban development.

At the risk of sounding very kumbayaish,

Aren't they? Does anyone ever stop to think of the complex, extremely fragile ecosystems that are interconnected with those rainforests? Also as those trees have no voice, shouldn't someone stand up for their rights of "I was here first, long before you"? How would you like it if a bunch of trees came in and burned down your city so they could plant themselves?

Think about it.

Um, no. We hold the needs of people to be more important than the "right" of a non-sentient plant. Our ecosystem and environment have flourished fine for hundreds of years without some committee, and I say that with the greatest degree of contempt, dictating what our policies on the matter should be.

[Araraukar]

We hold the needs of people to be more important than the "right" of a non-sentient plant.

OOC: You mean non-sapient. Most higher plants are just as sentient as higher animals are, they just communicate chemically in messages we humans are only just starting to understand, and react on a very different timescale (aside from a few exceptions, like the flytrap plants' traps).

[Tenebriso]

We hold the needs of people to be more important than the "right" of a non-sentient plant.

OOC: You mean non-sapient. Most higher plants are just as sentient as higher animals are, they just communicate chemically in messages we humans are only just starting to understand, and react on a very different timescale (aside from a few exceptions, like the flytrap plants' traps).

OOC: Yes, I guess I got those terms mixed up.

[Capitalist Producers]

There's another WA edict we will find a way to circumvent.

[Araraukar]

There's another WA edict we will find a way to circumvent.

Or you could partake the repeal drafting here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=258096