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Repeal "Ban on Forced Blood Sports"
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.Category: RepealTarget: GA#498Proposed by: Tinhampton
General Assembly Resolution #498 “Ban on Forced Blood Sports” (Category: Moral Decency; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Condemning GA#498 for its unnecessarily heavy-handed approach to regulating animal fights, inasmuch as:
- blood sports occurring solely between animals are forbidden, given that Article 3 - which prohibits blood sports involving animals that carry "a significant possibility of serious injury or death" - is superfluous in light of Article 1a, which defines a blood sport as "involving the maiming or killing of at least one of the participants," and
- blood sports occurring between animals and sapient beings are also forbidden, as animals are not sapient under Article 1b and thus cannot consent to blood sports organised under Article 2,
Noting, with concern, the lack of clarity over how animal blood sport participants should be released; including over what a "significant risk of harm [or] danger" is, whether an animal's release to its natural habitat must avoid endangering that habitat, and whether (given that the euthanisation of animal participants must be humane) they should also be released or freed humanely,
Believing that this vagueness allows member states to do more harm than good to such participants and their natural habitats even while making a good-faith attempt to comply with GA#498, thus potentially making the intended outcomes of Clauses 4a, 4b and 4c self-defeating, and
Convinced that the regulation of blood sports is a matter for individual member states, rather than international legislation...
The General Assembly hereby repeals GA#498, its "Ban on Forced Blood Sports."