St Edmundan Antarctic
21-05-2007, 18:39
No, not another 'Free Trade' proposal...
This is really just an idea that I jotted down during a rainy evening recently, and isn’t actually an official St Edmundan Antarctican project. I think that it should be legal (unless it were to be dismissed as “Too Silly”) and might be useful, but don’t know whether I’d actually bother submitting it unless ordered to do so…
Pride and Prejudice
Category: Furtherment of Democracy
Strength: Mild
Description: It is a truth (almost) universally acknowledged that a government which has been in firm possession of its nation for quite a while is most in need of honest criticism, and of the humility with which to listen to this…
Therefore the United Nations,
RECOGNISING that even in democracies the tenure of public office, especially if prolonged and without credible opposition, may help lead not only national leaders but lesser politicians and subordinate officials too into a belief that they are naturally superior to their nations’ other inhabitants, and to think that their own views are not just the only ones they need to consider but the only ones that might even be worth considering at all;
RECOGNISING that national leaders, lesser politicians and subordinate officials, might sometimes allow such a belief to lead them into arrogant actions, and/or into the passage of badly-thought-out legislation, to the detriment of their nations’ other inhabitants,
RECOGNISING also that some national leaders, lesser politicians and subordinate officials, especially if confident of retaining power, might allow their policies and actions to be influenced by prejudice either towards or against various elements of their nations’ populations,
BELIEVING that if national leaders, lesser politicians or subordinate officials, give in to Pride and Prejudice in these ways then they are unlikely to govern those nations in the best interests of the overall populations therein;
1. REMINDS all national leaders, lesser politicians and subordinate officials, that no matter how long and how firmly they may have held those positions, or for how much longer they might reasonably expect to retain them, it is highly unlikely (unless they have very unusual metabolisms indeed…) that the Sun actually shines forth from any portions of their anatomies;
2. STRONGLY URGES all national leaders, lesser politicians and subordinate officials, to listen seriously to honest criticism and constructive advice, and to take this in the spirit in which it is meant, instead of just ignoring, belittling or even punishing, the sources of that criticism and advice;
3. STRONGLY URGES national leaders, lesser politicians and subordinate officials, to act consistently in the best interests of the people within their jurisdictions as a whole, without letting prejudice either towards or against any elements of those populations influence the ways in which they perform their official responsibilities.
= 2’475 characters?
Afterthought: Actually, having looked at this again, it might be worth at least a trial submission… The text seems neither intrusive enough to annoy the NatSovs nor sovereigntist enough to annoy the IntFeds (and actually encourages governments to pay more attention to their peoples, which should please the HumSovs), and at least some of the many Delegates who approved the recently submitted/deleted ‘DOS’ proposal might support this one too as it’s in the same category that that was…
And it does have quite a catchy title to attract people with, after all… ;)
Alfred Devereux Sweynsson MD,
Ambassador to the United Nations
for
The Protectorate of The St Edmundan Antarctic
(And still required to wear this bloody penguin costume…)
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*(Goes over to signal home [IC] to ask permission for submitting this...)*
This is really just an idea that I jotted down during a rainy evening recently, and isn’t actually an official St Edmundan Antarctican project. I think that it should be legal (unless it were to be dismissed as “Too Silly”) and might be useful, but don’t know whether I’d actually bother submitting it unless ordered to do so…
Pride and Prejudice
Category: Furtherment of Democracy
Strength: Mild
Description: It is a truth (almost) universally acknowledged that a government which has been in firm possession of its nation for quite a while is most in need of honest criticism, and of the humility with which to listen to this…
Therefore the United Nations,
RECOGNISING that even in democracies the tenure of public office, especially if prolonged and without credible opposition, may help lead not only national leaders but lesser politicians and subordinate officials too into a belief that they are naturally superior to their nations’ other inhabitants, and to think that their own views are not just the only ones they need to consider but the only ones that might even be worth considering at all;
RECOGNISING that national leaders, lesser politicians and subordinate officials, might sometimes allow such a belief to lead them into arrogant actions, and/or into the passage of badly-thought-out legislation, to the detriment of their nations’ other inhabitants,
RECOGNISING also that some national leaders, lesser politicians and subordinate officials, especially if confident of retaining power, might allow their policies and actions to be influenced by prejudice either towards or against various elements of their nations’ populations,
BELIEVING that if national leaders, lesser politicians or subordinate officials, give in to Pride and Prejudice in these ways then they are unlikely to govern those nations in the best interests of the overall populations therein;
1. REMINDS all national leaders, lesser politicians and subordinate officials, that no matter how long and how firmly they may have held those positions, or for how much longer they might reasonably expect to retain them, it is highly unlikely (unless they have very unusual metabolisms indeed…) that the Sun actually shines forth from any portions of their anatomies;
2. STRONGLY URGES all national leaders, lesser politicians and subordinate officials, to listen seriously to honest criticism and constructive advice, and to take this in the spirit in which it is meant, instead of just ignoring, belittling or even punishing, the sources of that criticism and advice;
3. STRONGLY URGES national leaders, lesser politicians and subordinate officials, to act consistently in the best interests of the people within their jurisdictions as a whole, without letting prejudice either towards or against any elements of those populations influence the ways in which they perform their official responsibilities.
= 2’475 characters?
Afterthought: Actually, having looked at this again, it might be worth at least a trial submission… The text seems neither intrusive enough to annoy the NatSovs nor sovereigntist enough to annoy the IntFeds (and actually encourages governments to pay more attention to their peoples, which should please the HumSovs), and at least some of the many Delegates who approved the recently submitted/deleted ‘DOS’ proposal might support this one too as it’s in the same category that that was…
And it does have quite a catchy title to attract people with, after all… ;)
Alfred Devereux Sweynsson MD,
Ambassador to the United Nations
for
The Protectorate of The St Edmundan Antarctic
(And still required to wear this bloody penguin costume…)
_________________________________________________________________
*(Goes over to signal home [IC] to ask permission for submitting this...)*