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Vote Against GA resolution Right To Self-Defense


General Assembly Vote Recommendation

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Resolution at Vote: Right To Self-Defense
Vote Recommendation: Against

Resolution Analysis
It is difficult to know if the current proposal is genuinely concerned with improving civil rights or if simply seeks to try and resolve violence by enabling further violence. The author cites the lack of legislation on this subject as a potential tool of oppressive regimes, but a right to self-defence never extends to acts of violence against one's government, so that argument makes little sense. The proposed justification for an individual's (often weaponized) self-defence is too broad and too open to interpretation. This leaves great potential for a disproportionate defence response, based not on the actual threat in each situation, but on the individual's interpretation of that threat. This often leads to fatal mistakes. A one-size-fits-all legislation does not work in this case, and it is the opinion of the Ministry that any nation's rights to self-defence should develop organically, over time, and perhaps through individual judiciaries.

For this reason, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote Against the proposal.

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