Rights of Biological Sapients
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| Category: | Human Rights | Strength: | Significant | Proposed By: | Reformentia |
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Description: RECOGNIZING the anthropocentric tendencies of UN legislation.
ACKNOWLEDGING the possibility of the existence of non-human sapient life worthy of being granted the rights and freedoms humans enjoy.
REGRETTING the difficulty in establishing an objective direct measure of the possession of sapience.
CONVINCED that some clearly identifiable criteria for granting such rights and freedoms must be established.
DECLARES that, if any biological species or member thereof demonstrates the capacity to issue a request to the UN, of their own volition, that the rights and freedoms granted to human beings be extended to them and demonstrates a coherent understanding of the request under cross examination, they shall be considered to be equal to humans under the law with regard to those rights and freedoms. This shall not apply when such rights or freedoms are inappropriate to the biological characteristics of the species.
DECLARES that should these rights and freedoms be granted to the requesting species that species will also be subject to the restrictions contained in UN law except where they too are inappropriate to the biological characteristics of the species.
REQUIRES that if any genetic or technological modifications or augmentations are required to communicate this request they be performed by the members of the species in question if the entire species is to qualify for those rights and freedoms. If any member of a species is genetically or technologically augmented by a member of a different species that individual or individuals shall be considered a distinct species of their own under the law, qualifying for the rights and freedoms requested but only securing them for themselves.
FURTHER REQUIRES that if a request is made by any UN member that a species be thus evaluated for sapience that contact between that species and the UN shall not be prevented by any member nation.
DECLARES that the rights and freedoms of non biological life forms shall be left unaddressed by this resolution and open to separate consideration.
Co-authored by: The Two Sheds
- Votes For: 4,783
- Votes Against: 7,949
- Implemented: Sun Dec 21 2005
