Tuesday, May 31, 2005

EU constitution

Was so bored at work today (nothing to do while waiting for a customer) that read the EU constitution.

Hurrah for the French. I wouldn't've signed the damn thing either.

200-265 pages for the thing itself, not counting all the protocols, and it's extremely vague. OK, ours is fairly vague too (how do you define pursuit of happiness?), but at least it's way shorter, and besides it's a beta version written in 1787.

In short: "We are for everything good and against everything bad. Please give generously."

The really weird thing about it is that it explicitly bans human cloning. It also prohibits eugenic practices and using human body as a source of financial gain. I am thinking you can ban quite a lot of stuff under such laws.

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