NationStates Jolt Archive

please support the amendment of past resolutions act.

Can you post the resolution here, or at least tell us what it's about?

Yngwie Malmsteen,
Nibbleton UN Delegate

Please, make it stop ....

Amendment of past resolutions
A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Flockhart

Description: It is widely accepted that we as humans,make mistakes,so why should we not be able to correct them.
I propose the founding of a council of learned UN members to gather opposition to passed resolutions.
For example the SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM law was passed by 3075 members,if 3076 votes could be collected against it by the council,the issue would go back to the un to be voted on.
Appropriate time limits would be neccessary.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 148 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Feb 9 2004

It's Game Mechanics, people. You can't change that in the UN, no matter how many times you post.

PLEASE, read the rules before posting another one of these.

I couldnt have put it better myself.

I could have. :lol:

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AAARRRGHHH!!!
WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP ON DOING THIS?!!?!?!?!?!?! I'VE JUST FINISHED EXPLAINING TO SOMEBODY ELSE WHY YOU CAN'T REPEAL, WHY CAN'T PEOPLE READ THE STICKIES?!

Ok...now that I've got that out of my system, allow me to repeat what I posted on another thread by way of explanation as to why you can't repeal or amend:

The ban on repeals and amendments is unfortunate but here to stay.

The mods have stated this repeatedly, and here is what I think is the official explanation.

- The effect of a resolution is to alter the statistics of each nation in the UN at that time as the category determines (e.g. human rights increases all members' civil rights) - anything else is pure role-play
- Whilst the intention of a repeal or amendment is to change the role-pay bit, to be consistent it would have to reverse or alter the statistical effect of the original - i.e. a repeal of a human rights resolution would have to decrease civil rights by the same amount.
- The game keeps no record of what nations were in the UN at the time of passing different resolutions, therefore you hit this problem:

Say nation A joined the UN on monday, and on tuesday a human rights resolution passed which increased A's civil rights. On Wednesday, B joined the UN and so its civil rights were unaffected by the resolution, and on Thursday a repeal of the resolution passed - if its effect was the opposite of the first resolution, it would work on A (the civil rights would be decreased as if it had never happened), but it wouldn't work on B (there would just be a decrease in civil rights). Conversely, if it did nothing to stats, then it would be pointless because it wouldn't actually reverse the changes to A.

SO PLEASE PEOPLE, FOR GOD'S SAKE STOP SUGGESTING REPEALS OR AMENDMENTS!!

Ya think people read :?: :roll: