When I joined Asgardia couple of days ago, I misread something that that led me to believe I had joined just in time to help make changes to the constitution. I misread the date, so I was a year too late. But I had already started, and decided to turn ...
When I joined Asgardia couple of days ago, I misread something that that led me to believe I had joined just in time to help make changes to the constitution. I misread the date, so I was a year too late. But I had already started, and decided to turn it into a blog post.
If terms like moral, immoral, and morality are going to be included in the Constitution (as they are), then those terms should be clearly defined in relation to the Constitution, since they are generally subjective terms. What is moral for one person or group, can be immoral for another person or group. I propose removing such subjective terms from the Constitution altogether. It can’t be that hard to come up with better wording.
The following was an immediate glaring omission from the constitution I noticed, so I added the second half of the sentence.
Chapter 1
11 Asgardia is a non-religious nation of free Spirit, science and internationalism. However, every Asgardian can freely practise any religion of planet Earth, providing that such practice does not interfere with the rights of any other person.
(The spelling of practise also needs to be corrected)
Nudity is the natural state of humankind, the same as all animals. In certain instances, it is advantageous to wear clothes, which is why we invented them. Some people, for various reasons, have decided that wearing clothes in public should always be practiced, and that it is immoral for anyone not to wear them. That attitude infringes on the right of other people to be nude. Conversely, nudists attitude, of them deserving to be nude anytime they want to, would infringe on the right of textile folks to not be exposed to nudity. A solution to this would be to either have different Asgardian localities for each group, or to have different areas within the same locality for each group. In either case, when in the area of the other group, a person should abide by that groups rules. Nudists should wear clothes when in textile areas, and textile folks should expect to encounter nude people, when in nudist areas. In their own domicile people should be able to dress, or not, as they see fit. These rights should be encoded either in the constitution, or other laws.
There are many different types of relationships. Monogamy is by no means the only one, and even it contains different types of relationships. Consensual Non Monogamy (CNM) and Polyamory (a subset of CNM) are two types of relationships that are rapidly growing in popularity. It is my contention that government should have nothing whatsoever to do with peoples choice of relationship style. People should be treated by government as individuals. That includes regarding taxes, welfare, and in any other way that government deals with people. I think this should also be encoded in the constitution or other laws.
I look forward to reading others thoughts about my ideas, as well as what other ideas they might have.