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I encourage for Nations to take a look at my proposal and get their delegates to vote for this.

Sports in every Country
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: SOC Intelligence

Description: Every country, regardless of being rich or poor need to encourage children to participate in sports for several important reasons.

Sports, such as Baseball, Football, Soccer, and Basketball to name a few are critical for young children to learn about team work, courage, and leadership. It also develops a good healthy start to one's life.

Adults playing in organized sports are very good financially for countries as well. Nations developing rivarlies and experiencing the joy of rooting for a team lifts a countries morale.

I, SOC Intelligence, propose for the UN to develop the following guidelines for every nation to follow.

1. No child will ever be denied a chance to play in organized sports unless determined not fit too by their parents.

2. Every school have organized sports to create leadership and team values.

3. Nations build arenas and stadiums for the following sports to be played by adults in organized league and private play:

a. Baseball
b. Basketball
c. Football
d. Soccer
e. Hockey
f. Tennis
g. Golf

4. Other sports are optional and can be established once the ones mentioned above are complete.

5. Finally, encourage nations to challenge other nations in sport to increase morale in nations.

I know this will be exspensive and take some time. But the long term costs will be replenished and the people will rejoice!

Approvals: 2 (RGC, SOC Intelligence)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 145 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Tue Jun 28 2005

Thank you!

SOC Intelligence of the Red Head Step Children

I would like to remind you that the normal interpretation of football is not the version where people go and beat the crap out of each other every weekend, but rather the type that's....pretty much....soccer (if anyone out there can give me an actual way to tell the difference between football and soccer, please do).

OOC: Further, I'd like to point out that that form of football has not had much success being marketed outside North America - even though it's trying to lay claim now to being the "American passtime"

Nations developing rivarlies and experiencing the joy of rooting for a team lifts a countries morale.

In general, people in our society reject nationalistic loyalties. We see little point in supporting a player or team simply because they were born within the same arbitrary lines on a map. _Myopia_ would not be comfortable with a UN resolution advocating loyalty to a nation or rivalry between nations, regardless of the magnitude.

Why can't spectators enjoy sports merely for the display of skill - why do they have to corrupt appreciation of talent with irrational tribalistic loyalties?

I, SOC Intelligence, propose

I think branding proposal texts is illegal.

1. No child will ever be denied a chance to play in organized sports unless determined not fit too by their parents.

What if their parents are negligent, and send their heavily asthmatic child out to run the marathon? Or send their skinny little five-year-old to fight in a boxing match? Or what if taking that chance to play would interfere in other things - e.g. if a team wants to recruit a talented child, but this would involve them going on a tour and ruining their education?

Plus, how do you define "organised sports"? There are quite a lot of things where it might not be clear, such as the boundary between martial arts, contact sports, and stupid people beating the hell out of each other, or playground games and playground sports.

3. Nations build arenas and stadiums for the following sports to be played by adults in organized league and private play:

a. Baseball
b. Basketball
c. Football
d. Soccer
e. Hockey
f. Tennis
g. Golf

This is just silly. For starters, golf is not generally played in arenas or stadiums. Second, not all of these sports are popular in all nations. For instance, forcing us to build golf courses and American football stadiums in _Myopia_ would be a waste of money, since basically nobody in our nation cares about those sports. Third, you're discriminating against other sports and, to an extent, stifling them, because some nations might have to pull funding from fencing clubs for kids, say, in order to afford their new hockey stadium. Fourth, _Myopia_'s government has enough problems on its hands supporting our stretched health and education systems in our relative poverty, so asking us to splash out on sports arenas is not practical. It isn't even necessary to have a stadium to play sports - surrounding a ptich/court/whatever with a stadium is a luxury that private organisations can pay for if they wish, but which we simply cannot afford.

4. Other sports are optional and can be established once the ones mentioned above are complete.

Here, you cement the discrimination against other sports, by effectively stating that they are less important, and that we can't do anything in those sports until we set up facilities for your chosen list of sports.

Has anyone heard of a government built golf course?

...Baseball...We don't play baseball. It's a silly game. We play cricket, which we imported from our South Asian allies.
...Basketball...Yecch. Stupid game. Right up there with "baseball".
...Football...You mean rugby, right? Or are you talking about that Australian game?
...Soccer...Doesn't everyone already play that?!?
...Hockey...Tropical nations should be forbidden from playing hockey. In fact, the game should be banned below the 40th parallel (either hemisphere).
...Tennis...Eeeeeeew. Such an effete game, that.
...Golf...A waste of real estate and a good walk spoilt, to boot.
Other sports are optional and can be established once the ones mentioned above are complete.Oh, we get it. After we're done mandating that communities spend millions on all your favourite sports, we can think about subsiding ours, like cricket, rugby, lacrosse, polo, dressage, fencing, sailing, rowing, triathlon, automobile racing, skating, etc.

You're North American, right? Lose your regional bias, and recognise the fact that you're all a bunch of odd birds who play weird games.

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Seriously, if you really want to make government subsidies for sport mandatory, just say that we each have to pick 3-5 of our own favourite games and subsidise those. Why do they all have to be yours?

Has anyone heard of a government built golf course?

You'd be surprised how many military bases have them.

Lose your regional bias, and recognise the fact that you're all a bunch of odd birds who play weird games.

Pot. Kettle.

This proposal is but an outrageous attempt to force our citizens to exercise! This will not stand!

This proposal is but an outrageous attempt to force our citizens to exercise! This will not stand!

Actually, I think you'll find that it will further the couch potato cause. Only a small minority of adults will have to actually play sports, since this proposal is quite focused on encouraging spectator sports - witness the demand for stadiums, rather than just building basic sporting facilities sufficient for the average citizen to enjoy a game.

You'd be surprised how many military bases have them.

That would certainly explain why I've never heard of that....

Canada? Military bases?

I notice that this proposal does not include tummyball. Tummyball is a very simple sport in which large, fat men bouce a round rubber ball off their stomachs in an attempt to hit the opposing team's square target, which is mounted on a twelve-foot poll on opposite ends of the field. If this sounds like an unbeleivably dull and impossible sport, that's because it is. Much of the actual entertainment value involved comes from watching large, fat men running around and working up a sweat attempting to bounce a ball off of their stomach. It was so bizarre and amusing when it first appeared in Fatus Maximus nearly sixty years ago that it quickly became an immediate success, and the novelty has not yet worn off.

I think this resolution needs to be revised into something like an official UN endorsement of an international tournament of some kind for all sports no? All this does is say:

"Please encourage your population to build sports arenas, and to play sports"

This would bankrupt a good portion of the less economically advanced of us.
Instead a UN endorsed International Tournament compromising all types of sports would have a much broader appeal to all NSUN nations since not every nation would have to build a sports arena to train a marathon runner or other Track & Field athlete.

Infact I might just help draft that resolution. (see next post from this one)

Here is how I would draft such a proposal:

NSUN Endorsement of the "Nation States Olympics"
Category: Political Stability
Strength: Significant

Introduction:
Since there is no official Nation States Olympics, It has been suggested by members of our Public Health and Fitness Commitee that we submit for the NSUN a proposal to create the first ever NS olympics.


Creates:

The Nationstates International Olympic Commitee (NSIOC) who oversees the location, and the sports that the atheletes will participate in.

Initial events would include:

Summer:
Track & Field (decathalon, marathon, etc.)
Basketball
Soccer
Cricket
Baseball
Field Hockey

Winter:
Hockey
Speed Skating
Skiing (Downhill, Slalom, etc.)

Olympic events wuld be held every 4 years with each season alternating every 2 years. Locations are to be chosen by the NSIOC as well as all other decisions regarding the international aspect of play. All nations who wish to participte would send in their application for instatement and qualifying rounds in each sport would be held in each respective region.

Interstellar Nations, and Pre Industrial Revolution Nations can also apply.

Reminds me of a certain deleted proposal (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Olympic_Games_%28removed%29) from August 2004.

[Lord] Michael Evif
Goobergunchian UN Ambassador

Then all of this is irrelevant, and illegal.

Thank you for reminding us of that Goobergunchia.