Atrocity Ban

[Pandemoniak]

We could write a Declaration of Human Rights living on Planet, and we would put there that atrocities, SE choices as Thoughts Control and Police State are not in the Faction Line.

[Crisler]

While I expected to see the Ban Atrocity combined socre winning, figured everyone or at least a large majority was for banning in some way, I am supirsed at how many do not want a ban at all.

E.L. Crisler
First Commissioner

[Juliennew]

It is an important debate but it just doesn't belong in the constitution.

[DeathByTheSword]

I agree with everone that says no to the ban in the constitution

and NO i am not a yes-man

[The Bloody Baro]

Well if we play SMAX instead of SMAC then we can still gas aliens.

[Method]

Originally posted by The Bloody Baro
Well if we play SMAX instead of SMAC then we can still gas aliens.

read the official poll results thread. we are playing SMAC not SMAX. besides, gassing the bugs isnt an atrocity

[Zakharov VII]

This is a very interesting question...basically (at least to me, opposing atrocities) what is being asked is whether our Constitution should be part of the role playing. Right now we have a very generic (to SMAC, that is) Constitution. But if the main focus of this democracy game is role playing (which, I think according to that other poll, it is), don't we need a document to that effect? Since we are role playing, shouldn't we consider all of "humankind"'s (humankind, as in the people on Alpha Centauri) basic rights, not just those of the Peacekeeping faction which we represent?

If we want to do another democracy game after this, perhaps with more aggressive, pro-atrocity views, we can use the base constitution which is copied and pasted in plenty of posts. But, with our main goal as it is, we need our Constitution to be part of that role playing.

Thus, if we believe is the right of all humans living on Alpha Centauri not to be nerve stapled, planet busted, or nerve gased, we should put it in our Declaration of Rights.

(As to the last posts, some, including me, would argue that if we were playing SMAX (which I don't have, though I guess I could still participate in a SMAX democracy ), the aliens do not deserve atrocities either. Even if "the game" and the other factions say it's OK, we have to be who we are.)

Thus I voted "yes," we need this ban in our Constitution, because we need the ban and because we should pave the way for other role-playing issues to be declared in our Constitution.

Z

[DeathByTheSword]

Agian I say there is allready a restriction on the use of atrocities....the UN Charter....lets just keep that and if someone wants it repieled than look at what we all want... and if we are going to put it in a document let not put it in the Constitution but in some thing else (declaration of humanity orsome thing i read.)

[Darkness' Edge]

I'm against a ban on the use of atrocities.

It should be up to the people, at that particular time, to decide whether to commit an atrocity.