[DRAFT #2] Protecting Self-Defence Education

[Tinhampton]

Character count: 1,665
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ICly by Lydia Anderson, Assistant to the Delegate-Ambassador again.
OOC: Draft 1. This will not be submitted before Right to Self-Defence.

Protecting Self-Defence Education
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.

Category: Educational and Creativity

Area of Effect: Educational

Proposed by: Tinhampton

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Believing that the GA#737 "Basic Self-Defense Rights" are worthless if nobody can actually learn how to defend themselves, the General Assembly hereby:

1. defines "self-defence education," for the purposes of this resolution, as practical instruction about the importance and safe, legal, and non-aggressive execution of basic unarmed self-defence; de-escalating and preventing small-scale, physical conflict situations; and recognising and escaping from situations that threaten life and health,
2. requires that:
   
   1. member states permit the delivery of self-defence education within their territory,
   2. members allow all individuals above the age of majority to voluntarily seek and receive self-defence education within their territory, and
   3. schools in members allow their students the opportunity to voluntarily seek and receive some form of self-defence education (including but not limited to as part of regular teaching, separately from their school curriculum or in association with non-school providers of self-defence education),
3. demands that those delivering self-defence education pursuant to Article b do so in a way that is accessible to any people with disabilities who may be participating in it, so long as it is imminently possible to adapt such education accordingly,
4. urges members to allow individuals receiving self-defence education under Article b(i) to also receive similar instruction about more advanced forms of self-defence, and
5. clarifies that no part of this resolution requires any provider of self-defence education to deliver education about any particular technique of basic unarmed self-defence.

[Tinhampton]

Reserved for depreciated drafts that also aren't Draft #1.

[The Orwell Society]

Why not include these provisions in your other proposal? Or are you just going for quantity over quality?

[Tinhampton]

Why not include these provisions in your other proposal? Or are you just going for quantity over quality?

I just don't feel as though the right to plead self-defence should be protected in the same proposal as the right to learn self-defence; that would not be conducive to "quality" or certainty over category. Self-Defence Education Compact came in for substantial and well-founded criticism last year; although I believe I have touched on all the concerns raised about it at the time, I do not want the adjacent controversy to spill over into Right to Self-Defence, which would hence jeopardise legal as well as educational protections.

Do you have any concerns about the actual text of PSDE?

[The Orwell Society]

Why not include these provisions in your other proposal? Or are you just going for quantity over quality?

I just don't feel as though the right to plead self-defence should be protected in the same proposal as the right to learn self-defence; that would not be conducive to "quality" or certainty over category. Self-Defence Education Compact came in for substantial and well-founded criticism last year; although I believe I have touched on all the concerns raised about it at the time, I do not want the adjacent controversy to spill over into Right to Self-Defence, which would hence jeopardise legal as well as educational protections.

Do you have any concerns about the actual text of PSDE?

No, not at this moment. Support.

[Tinhampton]

El bump

[Tinhampton]

Still working on this!

[Anne of Cleves in TNP]

Support in principle.

[Daarwyrth]

Zylkoven: "Our delegation finds itself in support of this proposal, and has found nothing to add or subtract to the current text."

[Chipoli]

Stefan Savych: "We'll support this proposal, as we see no problems with it in quality nor principle."

[Tinhampton]

*prods the draft with a very blunt stick*

[Tinhampton]

I'm here, too. No, I'm not in two places at once. That would be very heretical of me.

[Tinhampton]

This is still being worked on, too.

[States of Glory WA Office]

Neville: 'Would this proposal prevent member states from setting reasonable restrictions on the delivery of self-defence education, such as a requirement that all teachers be recognised by a bona fide martial arts body or limits on the extent to which self-defence educators can reasonably bypass assault laws?'

[Tinhampton]

Bump in light of GA#737 "Basic Self-Defense Rights." Should submit later in 2024, date TBD.

Neville: 'Would this proposal prevent member states from setting reasonable restrictions on the delivery of self-defence education, such as a requirement that all teachers be recognised by a bona fide martial arts body or limits on the extent to which self-defence educators can reasonably bypass assault laws?'

No, it wouldn't (and also self-defence education falls outside the scope of this resolution if the self-defence being taught is illegal). Just because the resolution says "member states must allow X" does not mean it says "member states cannot place any limits on X;" anything the World Assembly is silent on is presumptively legal and can be dealt with by individuals, organisations, subdivisions, nations or even the WA itself as required.

[Bananaistan]

"Given the propensity of the WA to continuously add wishy, washy liberal shite to cirrucula, you'd wonder at what point will schools run out of time to teach maths and science? And as appears to be obligatory in any modern education proposal, home schooled children are effectively told that the WA doesn't care one jot about them.

"Opposed. There's no international utility."

[Tinhampton]

Anderson: This resolution does not require anything to be directly added to school curricula. Homeschooled persons are allowed to participate in self-defence education, as defined.

[Tinhampton]

Bump

[Starkindler]

While the Empire Immaterial concludes that the Bananistan delegation is correct that the right of self-defense education should remain a Member State competency, and must lodge a complaint, that the proposed Legislation has no international scope, and thus is inadmissable under WA procedures. Furthermore the delegation of the Empire Immaterial is appaled that the Bananistan delegate marked citizen self-defense as "wishy-washy liberal stuff". The right to bear arms of soldiers and citizens must be held sacrosanct, and extend to the knowledge to bear arms, or the right to raise arms - fists to any who dare to attack their freedoms. While any tyrant can take away weapons from the populace, no one has the capability (at least without wasting exorbitant amount of resources to mass and ultra-high precision memory suppression which includes reflexes and muscle memory) to take away the weapons which you are born with: your arms, legs, and brain. This resolution is thus in the Empire and by its proponents in the Empire seen as an extension of the Right to Bear Arms, and mostly supported by conservative factions of the Imperial Diet and Senate.

The Empire Immaterial wholeheartedly applauds this Draft that would allow Citizens of Member States to learn about self defense. I would like to cite here Senate Act MMXCXI of 1895 about the Amendment of Curriculum to add mandatory physical self-defense classes (itself amended several times from the pre-War nationalistic and militaristic version to the current version of peaceful deescalation of conflicts), and Senate Act MLXIV of 1982 adding Mental Self-defense to the curriculum (amended several times from the then-current threats of hostile New Religious Movements, to the more up-to-date threats of burnout, and digital toxicity). Physical Self Defense and Mental Self Defense are a core part of the Empire's curricula, and are a required subject of matriculation. To parallel our progressive laws, we would like to suggest a few amendments to the highly esteemed Tinhamptonian delegation:

• Member States shall encourage the population to take part in Self-defense education
• Member states must train all armed forces in at least one unarmed and/or improvised weapons combat form. This may or may not include SERE and non-firearm/non-DE weapon training, such as knives, swords and staves (referred to as tertiary armaments). This includes all police, secret police, Internal Troops, and gendarmerie forces. Special care must be provided so that a soldier should exercise caution when engaging a non-combatant in an unarmed combat form.
• Self-defense education in the proposed law shall limit itself for unarmed, and improvised weapons courses, and shall aim the student to defend and disarm their opponents in a way that neither aims to maim nor kill (most Starkindlerians studying self-defense from kindergarten upward reach highly advanced self-defense skills, and their unarmed skills are more often than not classified as lethal weaponry. Most battery cases are thus tried as aggravated battery, since any Starkindlerian, especially those with a military or police service record equal or beyond conscription is assumed to be a proficent martial artist)
• Mental self-defense training opportunities are to be subsidized by the WA, and made available to seek for any citizen of a WA state. (This would require mental self-defense be defined as the art of defending oneself from the psychological threats of gaslighting, burnout, hostile charismatic leaders, bullying - online and offline, social exclusion, and identify and resist obsessive/compulsive patterns of behavior such as workaholism, or cyber addiction)
• Self-defense training opportunities shall be subsidized by the WA or WA member states so that all people regardless of their socioeconomic background has a chance to find safe, and effective self-defense classes, and are able to progress to any level they are capable of (usually self defense classes require an ever-increasing monetary commitment from a practicioner that increases progressively with the level of the practicioner. The imperial education system uses a military developed martial art, and the defense and education budget carries all participants to any level they wish to reach)
• A periodic review of self-defense classes must be conducted by Member State authorities to avoid scammers from advertising unlicensed clones of existing martial arts, or advertising ineffective instruction in the art of self-defense. This shall be increased in mental self-defense training, where instructors need full background checks to prevent indoctrination sold as mental self-defense
• For any trainer working with people under the age of majority for a species, or a disadvantaged group regarding sexual predation (eg. human women in partiarchical human-majority societies), a limited background check must be periodically conducted on each martial arts trainer to limit the abuse of the precarious situation of their pupils.

[Midlona]

Midlona was proud to support GAR 737, and would be proud to support this resolution, too.

I believe that firearm training should be included in language. It would protect the ability for citizens to receive life-saving knowledge in a controlled setting. The choice to provide un-armed or armed (or both) self-defense education would still remain with educational providers or parents.

[Tinhampton]

Midlona was proud to support GAR 737, and would be proud to support this resolution, too.

I believe that firearm training should be included in language. It would protect the ability for citizens to receive life-saving knowledge in a controlled setting. The choice to provide un-armed or armed (or both) self-defense education would still remain with educational providers or parents.

See Article d.

a few amendments

Largely in disagreement for the following reasons:
- Self-defence education should be an option for those who are sincerely interested, or fearful. There are various reasons why some people, such as the severely disabled, cannot partake nor should be asked to.
- The scope of self-defence education under this resolution - both as must be allowed to exist, and as can be authorised under Article d - is clear. I see
- Reasonable Army Theory applies. If you're in the Army, you probably already know how to fight a man with your bare hands. Louanne Johnson, the former Marine whose Posse Don't Do Homework, did.
- It's assumed under Article b(ii) that if there are unreasonable barriers to educational access, member states will endeavour to remove them such that the prospective violation is removed.
- Self-defence subject matter experts know their subject better than the government does, especially if it doesn't involve firearms. If toxic teaching is involved, member states may step in to preclude it (since whatever is unwritten is allowed).

Also, your suggestion about "mental self-defence" was always well outside the scope of what I'm thinking for this resolution. It would be better suited for something about mental health.

[Tinhampton]

Bump. ICly, note that Lydia Anderson is now the Delegate-Ambassador!