[GA - Failed] Don't Shoot Strangers Act

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Don't Shoot Strangers Act
Category: Global Disarmament | Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Umeria | Onsite Topic​

The World Assembly,

Recognizing that even the heart of the most intrepid explorer harbors a primal fear of the unknown;

Realizing that there is nothing more unknown than the first encounter between two peoples;

Concluding, therefore, that neither side of such an encounter can claim foreknowledge of the other side having hostile intent;

Asserting that the vast majority of explorers and other such border dwellers do not exist in a constant state of maliciousness;

Damning any so-called "preemptive strike" exhibited by either side to be an act of the aforementioned primal fear;

Affirming that, as a civilized body, this august assembly should strive to promote acts of logic and reason;

Declaring that logic and reason would prohibit an unprovoked attack without any knowledge of the consequences;

Proclaiming that first impressions matter;

Hereby
  1. Defines, for the purposes of this resolution:
    1. a "first contact" as a meeting between two or more nations or other comparable legal entities in which at least one party has not previously encountered or communicated with the other;

    2. an "act of hostility" towards an entity as any of the following:
      1. firing a weapon at the entity,

      2. charging the entity's position,

      3. violating the entity's national borders, or

      4. entering an area that the entity has issued clear, universal warning signals to not enter;
  2. Prohibits member nations from committing an act of hostility during a first contact if no acts of hostility have been committed by any other parties involved in the first contact; and

  3. Clarifies that member nations shall not claim new territory as a means of circumventing the previous clause.
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3. How do I know where their borders are if we never met?
4. If they issued a universal warning, then it's not a first contact.

Against.
 
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Loopholes and bad definition kill the thing. Firstly, the way clause 3 works does not solve the problem of member nations unilaterally claiming a huge part of airspace and waters as their "territorial waters/airspace" and therefore, disregarding the clauses at hand because the other parties have infringed on their territory, so to speak. Secondly, clause 2 states "Prohibits member nations from committing an act of hostility during a first contact if no acts of hostility have been committed by any other parties involved in the first contact". Therefore, if a huge party from member nation A meets a smaller party each from non-member nations B, C, and D together, and one of the parties, say B, fires on A, it does not stop A from firing on everyone else assuming they have the power to do so. Does it solve the "don't shoot first" policy? Not quite. A reword would help me to support the policy though, as it has immense potential.
 
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