Cocopuff
09-02-2005, 02:58
Hello, Bonjour, Aloha, and all that,
I wanted to offer my repeal proposal for public scrutiny and discussion. It is currently located on page 15 of the UN proposals listings. Here's the gist:
Argument: UN Resolution #16 appears to place a blanket ban on all biological weapons and does not differentiate between lethal and non-lethal weapons and agents. However, certain non-lethal biological and chemical weapons and agents can be very effectively used to temporarily incapacitate or reduce the military effectiveness of an opponent without causing lasting harm, illness or injury.
Such non-lethal biological and chemical agents could represent a safe alternative to even conventional warfare, decreasing the unnecessary loss of human life in the pursuit of military and political objectives.
Because research and development of biological and chemical agents is closely tied to biomedical science, the significant possibility of making important biomedical discoveries in the course of pursuing research on such agents should give all nations pause to consider the possible merits. Furthermore, the cost of research and development can be shared with different industries, such as the pharmaceutical industry, rather than unduly burdening the taxpayers with solely government-funded research.
Considering all the above, I propose that Resolution #16 be repealed, and a UN oversight committee be commissioned to explore the research, development and deployment of non-lethal biological and chemical agents, in the interest of devising new and less deadly means of conducting warfare. This committee would also be responsible for defining which biological and chemical agents will be classified as "non-lethal." The bans required by Resolution #16 would remain in place for all other agents and weapons not so defined by the oversight committee. This proposal would also provide for the close monitoring, by UN teams, of any biological and/or chemical production facilities, the alteration and/or refitting of conventional weapons and devices that could be used for transport of chemical or biological agents to prevent lethal amounts from being deployed in a single ordinance.
I hope I wasn't too hasty in submitting the repeal. Cocopuff is a newcomer nation, and we're primarily composed of surfers sent way off course by tsunamis, failed hockey stars, and some possible alien abductees, so our concerns generally cycle between watching the waves, watching the skies, and senselessly beating on each other, and debating why we're named after a breakfast cereal, all occasionally interspersed by moments of political zeal!
Anyhoo, this issue is open to discussion, scrutiny, criticism, pontification, promulgation, procreation, assimilation, obfuscation, oscillation, and osculation.
I wanted to offer my repeal proposal for public scrutiny and discussion. It is currently located on page 15 of the UN proposals listings. Here's the gist:
Argument: UN Resolution #16 appears to place a blanket ban on all biological weapons and does not differentiate between lethal and non-lethal weapons and agents. However, certain non-lethal biological and chemical weapons and agents can be very effectively used to temporarily incapacitate or reduce the military effectiveness of an opponent without causing lasting harm, illness or injury.
Such non-lethal biological and chemical agents could represent a safe alternative to even conventional warfare, decreasing the unnecessary loss of human life in the pursuit of military and political objectives.
Because research and development of biological and chemical agents is closely tied to biomedical science, the significant possibility of making important biomedical discoveries in the course of pursuing research on such agents should give all nations pause to consider the possible merits. Furthermore, the cost of research and development can be shared with different industries, such as the pharmaceutical industry, rather than unduly burdening the taxpayers with solely government-funded research.
Considering all the above, I propose that Resolution #16 be repealed, and a UN oversight committee be commissioned to explore the research, development and deployment of non-lethal biological and chemical agents, in the interest of devising new and less deadly means of conducting warfare. This committee would also be responsible for defining which biological and chemical agents will be classified as "non-lethal." The bans required by Resolution #16 would remain in place for all other agents and weapons not so defined by the oversight committee. This proposal would also provide for the close monitoring, by UN teams, of any biological and/or chemical production facilities, the alteration and/or refitting of conventional weapons and devices that could be used for transport of chemical or biological agents to prevent lethal amounts from being deployed in a single ordinance.
I hope I wasn't too hasty in submitting the repeal. Cocopuff is a newcomer nation, and we're primarily composed of surfers sent way off course by tsunamis, failed hockey stars, and some possible alien abductees, so our concerns generally cycle between watching the waves, watching the skies, and senselessly beating on each other, and debating why we're named after a breakfast cereal, all occasionally interspersed by moments of political zeal!
Anyhoo, this issue is open to discussion, scrutiny, criticism, pontification, promulgation, procreation, assimilation, obfuscation, oscillation, and osculation.