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The Humanistas Praestantia Protocol.

Technocratic Republics
13-05-2004, 18:35
The Humanistas Praestantia Protocol aims for the creation of an international set of guidelines to define what is human and what is not.
This issue is mainly related to the genetic arena. Nations such as ours, that divert an important share of it's investigations and research on the modification of human life, will be surely interested by the Protocol.

The point here is to open the talks for a future enactement of the Protocol, in order to set international standarts among the nations that sign it.

The benefits of such Protocol are many, most importantly on the clasification and preservation of Humans as superior specie above derivations of it.

Now, the HP Protocol seeks to keep the regular status of Humans as a specie worthy of rights, while defining how much of a modification can be or can be not considered for it.

We have a current set of proposals and paragraphs that we belive could be added to this projected Protocol:


1.-Genetic Classification: The basic human genetic code remains as the base guideline for the Protocol. This would, with a differential ratio of a 0.2%, define what is human and what is not. Any so called being that is claimed to have human origin, and that fails to meet the maximum difference of the 0.2% will not be considered as one.

1.a.-Clarification: Species not related to human origins, such as Elves, Catpeople, extraterrestial lifeforms and the like do not fall into the overseen categories, due to their non-human quality. They are, therefore, excent of any issue presented in the Protocol.

1.b.-Clarification: The maximum genetic difference of 0.2% will only affect post-human derivations, and not pre-human ones. Therefore, any specie, related to humans, that has been spawned previous to the Homo Sapiens-Sapiens will not fall into the overseen categories. They are, therefore, excent of any issue presented in the Protocol.

1.c.-Modification: "Self Will": Post-human/sub-human species that fail to meet the maximum genetic regulation can, in the case of Self Will prescence, considered humans, but only if they berhave and interact following exact human patterns.


2.-Worthiness of Rights: Any post-human/sub-human specie that fails to meet Paragraph 1 will not be considered to fit as "Human" on what is related to International Rights. They are, therefore, not under U.N. Human Rights jurisdictions.

2.a.-Extension: Post-human/pre-human species that do not meet Paragraph 1 will be under the jurisdiction of their own nation's jurisprudential system. Therefore, the state is free to enact any form of law and/or restriction related to the specie in particular.


3.-Existential Status: Post-human/sub-human species that fail to meet Paragraph 1, and do not meet the minimum requeriment stated in Modification 1.c, will fall on either the "Animal" category or be classified as a "Good" of public/private ownership.

3.a.-Clarification: A post-human/sub-human species that fail to meet Paragraph 1, and do not meet the minimum requeriment stated in Modification 1.c, will be considered "Animal" in the case of impossible detection of Self Awareness and/or a genetic difference above the 1%.

3.b.-Clarification: A post-human/sub-human species that fail to meet Paragraph 1, and do not meet the minimum requeriment stated in Modification 1.c, will be considered "Good" of public/private ownership in the case of it having been developed by an institution and/or individual.

3.b.a.-Clarification: Clarification 3.b will only be effective as long as the designed/created specie had not been considered as part of animal/plant life prior to the design/creation.

3.b.b.-Clarification: The tipe of ownership (public/private) falls under jurisdiction of the local Ownership Constitution, in order to be considered one of the two.

3.b.c.-Extension: As the specie falls in the classification of "Good", it is affected by the same laws/restrictions as other goods and products, and therefore will enter the economic flow as one of them.



These are only basic points we have designed to be implemented in the Protocol. They are, by no means, definitive/mandatory, and they must be discussed openly for modification, regulation, clarification and extension.



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