M U.N Annual Model c debates om trir e nce t"'• Btakting — that the purpose of them for the same reason. You can I. government is not to legislate evict thern from their apartments. trtorality but to protect its citizens You can deny them credit. You can while maximizing their freedoms. - expel them from schools. You can This allows ople to choose their own religion but not to force their religious beliefs on others. The purpose of government is also not tc protect peo ple from themselves. Note passing during committee meetings and coalition building during caucuses garners sup port for proposed resolutions among committee members. 2Agnliag that free- I orn is the ability to do as one,pleases without harming property of a non-con senting other. '2 Reiterating that people should Jnot go to jail unless they hurt the person or property of a non consenting other. AAcknowledging that people "who have been convicted or arrested for consensual crimes are fired, discriminated against, and have trouble locating jobs and other necessities. The injustice doesn't end there, of course. Throwing people in jail is the xtreme. If you can throw people something, you can fire Photos by Cathie McCormick Marko Primorac and Mitchell Davidson Bentley strip away their civil rights and destroy their lives just because they 'are different. rhaying that it is just as false to Jsay that a person cannot have a good relationship with drugs or other illegal activities, as it is to say that people cannot have a bad relationship with food or cars. 6stating that after we reach the age of adulthood, our persons and property belong td us and we are free to do with them as we choose. 1 I Expressius that the legal /informing others that consen- ization of consensual crimes / sual crimes encourage real would create millions of jobs and crimes by artificially inflating billions of dollars in revenues and prices up to 500 percent of normal, legal price. People commit real crimes such as burglary and rob bery to pay these inflated prices. 12 Decreeing that consensual 0 crimes promote organized crime. 9Beporting that problems can not be solved while they are cnmes. 1 (Lauding that governments Vhave more important things to worry about such as crime, ter rorism, the environment, kidnap ping, fraud, and other crimes, which hurt the person and/or prop erty or a non-consenting other. tax money. 1 e)baforming that a govern ment can tax and certify certain legal substances for purity to protect people, but they cannot ensure the purity of ille gal sub stances. Most people die of drug overdos es because of re ease a pu '- tic statement urging that govern ments of the world legalize all consensual crimes, including, but not limited to, gun ownership, recreational drug use, religious and therapeutic drug use, trans vestism, prostitution, pornogra phy, and obscenity, violations of marriage (adultery, fornication, cohabitation, sodomy, bigamy, polygamy), homosexuality, regen erative drug use, unorthodox med ical practices, unconventional reli gious practices, unpopular politi cal views, suicide and assisted sui cide, not using safety devices (such as motorcycle helmets and seat belts), public drunkenness, jaywalking, loitering, and vagrancy with all deliberate speed. the impurities in them. Governments could license prostitutes to make sure they are free of disease. -3T h e United Nations resolves to
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