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sparkindarknessHis Most Excellent Majesty the King of Ascensora looked up from his breakfast to find a large dossier of papers blocking his easy access to the toast. Somewhat perturbed by this turn of events he thumbed through the piles to find 2 more great issues for his kingdom had arose. Muttering that they might as well have waited until he’d had as cup of tea and wiping some jam off his fingers on an official looking seal, he perused them thoughtfully.
The first concerned the thorny issue of compulsory organ donation. His Most Excellent Majesty sighed deeply for it was well reported that there was not nearly enough donations for all of those that required organs to save their lives and it grieved him sorely (not nearly as much as his people grieved him seeming to blame him for it - as if he could conjure random offal from thin air. Aside from anything else it would make a terrible mess of the carpeting). He noted with heavily downturned brows that many objected most strenuously to anyone “violating” their bodies after death. His Most Excellent Majesty was rather of the opinion that people could do absolutely anything they wanted to his body after death so long as they would give him 5 seconds peace (and a chance to finish his porridge) when he was actually alive. Knocking most of the stack on the floor, he signed the bill for compulsory organ donation - in his mind it was better that some dead people be angry with him while sick children continued to live as opposed to happy dead people being joined by rather unhappy dead kids. Aside from anything else, dead people didn’t vote (except for when his brother handled elections, anyway), parents of sick children did. Satisfied he rang his little silver bell to send down to the kitchens for more kidneys while he lifted the paperwork on the second issue of the morning.
The second sheath of papers concerned proposed legislation to ban human cloning. His Most Excellent Majesty raised a wry eyebrow at the title and was already rolling his eyes before the first page was read. Sure enough, His Most Excellent Majesty was not disappointed as he read page after page of vague moralising with little relation to actual fact or reference (unless several religious texts counted). With a dismissive flip of his wrists, the papers were cast to the floor, the ban dropped and funding for the research permitted to go forwards. If and when the scientists of Ascensora were willing, able and actually wished to clone a living human being they could deal with the issue then. Until that day His Majesty felt that using technology to save lives was hardly “violating the sanctity of life” as the protest rather dramatically put - certainly not so much as letting someone die who could live. Besides, if they could succeed in cloning organs maybe they could avoid cutting up unwilling dead people for extra kidneys.
Content, His Most Excellent Majesty returned to his kidneys and wondered if he could finish his coffee before the next crisis arose.
The first concerned the thorny issue of compulsory organ donation. His Most Excellent Majesty sighed deeply for it was well reported that there was not nearly enough donations for all of those that required organs to save their lives and it grieved him sorely (not nearly as much as his people grieved him seeming to blame him for it - as if he could conjure random offal from thin air. Aside from anything else it would make a terrible mess of the carpeting). He noted with heavily downturned brows that many objected most strenuously to anyone “violating” their bodies after death. His Most Excellent Majesty was rather of the opinion that people could do absolutely anything they wanted to his body after death so long as they would give him 5 seconds peace (and a chance to finish his porridge) when he was actually alive. Knocking most of the stack on the floor, he signed the bill for compulsory organ donation - in his mind it was better that some dead people be angry with him while sick children continued to live as opposed to happy dead people being joined by rather unhappy dead kids. Aside from anything else, dead people didn’t vote (except for when his brother handled elections, anyway), parents of sick children did. Satisfied he rang his little silver bell to send down to the kitchens for more kidneys while he lifted the paperwork on the second issue of the morning.
The second sheath of papers concerned proposed legislation to ban human cloning. His Most Excellent Majesty raised a wry eyebrow at the title and was already rolling his eyes before the first page was read. Sure enough, His Most Excellent Majesty was not disappointed as he read page after page of vague moralising with little relation to actual fact or reference (unless several religious texts counted). With a dismissive flip of his wrists, the papers were cast to the floor, the ban dropped and funding for the research permitted to go forwards. If and when the scientists of Ascensora were willing, able and actually wished to clone a living human being they could deal with the issue then. Until that day His Majesty felt that using technology to save lives was hardly “violating the sanctity of life” as the protest rather dramatically put - certainly not so much as letting someone die who could live. Besides, if they could succeed in cloning organs maybe they could avoid cutting up unwilling dead people for extra kidneys.
Content, His Most Excellent Majesty returned to his kidneys and wondered if he could finish his coffee before the next crisis arose.
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Date: 2007-04-09 12:48 pm (UTC)http://www.nationstates.net/osterian
(I chose not to censor Harry Potter when the issue came up, because the objections raised were entirely on religious grounds. The CEO does not approve of religion.)
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Date: 2007-04-11 11:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-09 01:59 pm (UTC)tho I am not a resident in your kingdom, I wanted to say THANK YOU for both of your decrees!!
May your wisdom spread beyond your borders!!
I'm ALL for cloning organs, so I wouldn't have to take anti-rejection meds for the rest of my life!
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Date: 2007-04-11 11:35 pm (UTC)