Lord Shadow

Chapter 1769: Reestablishment of Human Rights

There is so many great issues that was brought up during the court proceeding.

Those who studied the court proceeding would find the court proceeding even opens debate between the necessary of human experimentation in a world of change.

The debate itself is very compelling and make you feel in dilemma whether to support or not support human experimentation.

Does the promise of the future trumps the current present?

Does ethics holds back the development of science?

Does humanity matter that much in front of progress for the future development? then if that is the case, for whose sake this progress is for? If it progress but have no humanity, then for what reason one would have to fight of progress?

Who is this progress for?

Such question would arise if you read the court proceeding where the lawyers and the prosecutor both argue their points.

After years of debating and after years of court proceeding, the World Court judge that what The Grand Researcher had done was abominable.

It is reiterated in the court that human experimentation could be done but only in the strictest supervision.

The rules that is used in the world court, follows some of the Nuremberg code. That code itself paved the way for the development of medical ethics and greatly influenced the evolution of human rights law.

At the same time, new laws and new regulations was added in the World Court because of the trial of the Grand Researchers.

It is basically like a reaffirmation that the need for informed consent in all research and warned that the ”interest of science and society should never take precedence over considerations related to the wellbeing of the subject.”

In the past, sometimes, which is rarely, human experimentation is needed to know certain thing. But with the advent of new technologies, and magic itself the links between ethical principles and human rights in research involving human participants become particularly relevant.

CRISPR-Cas9 for example pose serious risks and challenges to the protection of peoplesʼ human rights and basic ethical principles in terms of, for instance, human dignity, informed consent, and the rights of future generations.

That is only on the science sides.

What about the magic side?

That is even more unregulated because of the very nature of magic.

For example, some people believe that if Death Monarch wanted to, he could turn people into animals, just like those gods in the myths and folklores of the ancient past where these gods turns people who make them angry.

In the context of recuperation of the world, human subject research is necessary and even desirable to achieve full realization of the right to health.

It is not so stressed in the beginning after the Fall, but the chaos of the world on the rest of the world has slowly subside and they need to live in this new world.

So, the rights of humanity that was suspended during the Fall rises back up now that the world is stable, and even more so, when the world needed to recuperate.

Nonetheless, human research is not exempt from restrictions necessary to guarantee respect for human rights.

States must protect people from potential harms arising from and during scientific research.

States have the obligation to protect people from being used or exploited in harmful scientific experiments, as well as the obligation to set safeguards to prevent harm caused by research or experimentation. ”No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.”

Before the Fall, this matter is not legally binding.

But the World Court create a precedence that it is legally binding.

Probably because they have the power to enforce it with the Seven World Powers agreeing to submit to the World Court laws.

The World Court reiterates in the judgement of the case of Grand that ”no one shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation.”

Because of the rashness of the Order of Thinkers, they abandoned humanity and choose the uncertain promise of the future, completely ignoring the living being in front of them.

Order of Thinkers is not an abominable organization.

Instead, most of their invention did create more conveniences for the world.

They melded the technology before the Fall with the magical technology that has sprouted since the Fall.

They even create new technology that is derived solely from the magical energy.

Their contribution to the world is numerous.

And because of that the lawyer of the Order of Thinkers ask for shortening of sentence. Or a house arrest

And some world leaders also agrees with this.

But Raymond appears at that time and simply said, ”If that is the case, I would kill ten thousand people of Order of Thinkers in the morning and by evening I would save a million lives. Would the sins of me killing that ten thousand people wiped out? Would the family of those people accept it? Even if there is no family, what do you think those people killed by me would think?”

Other people in the court might not be worthy of saying such words. Everyone in the court have blood in their hands.

Raymundo also have blood on his hands. But one could say that the blood on his hand is not dirty.

Raymond fought wars and battle. When he conquered the sates in America, he kills many people.

But everyone who fight against him and his army all knew why they were fighting. They all have their own belief and own sires and they fight for what they

They were ready to die. Just as Raymond and his soldiers were ready to die. nted.

It is a war. And it is not a hopeless war. It is a war where for the first time, they know who they die for and for what they want to die for. Raymond knows it and his enemies also knows it.

Raymond has always been an idealist. He did not kill the innocent and as much as he kills people, he forgives a lot of things too.

That battle pacified the United States and while they were many rebellious states when Raymond enters the World Government, he spend most of his time to pacify the United States.

He did not kill innocent people.

And he is always keen on giving people second chances.

Because he is a comic book nerd.

Raymond was not always the Raymond that people knows him as today.

He was bullied but he did not break down.

He reads comic and manga and find something to hide into.

And he admires the heroes in those comic books.

When the Fall happens and when he gain power, he fought for his friends. Was it easy? No. It is easier to kill your enemies.

And it more practical.

But he didnʼt.

He always tries to see the good in people.

It makes him lose many battle. But it is also for this reason that even his enemies would trust his words.

It is why people trust him.

In that court, on that day, he is the only one who could said that word and not get sneered at.

And so, the punishment stand.

The Grand Researcher would be imprisoned for two hundred years.

The lawyer however managed to secure something. Jean modified the prison to make sure that the time in it runs a little faster.

Twenty years would be equivalent to two hundred years.

The Grand Researcher have fifteen years to go in that prison of hers.

All the while the Order of Thinker become even more secluded.

With the Blood Sea, not many people could come to the shore of the New Antarctica.

If you sail the Blood Sea, you would only see the red water and everything is eerie. Ghost ships and ghostly being could be seen every once in a while.

But if you reach the shore of the Antarctica continent, you would reach a place filled with forest, tall mountains, beautiful lakes, deserts and plains.

There is even an entire plain of ice.

As there is plains of grasslands and large tracts of forest. There is rains and storms. This Antarctica is unlike the Antarctica that the people before the Fall used to

It is full of life. But it is also dangerous. Surrounded by the Blood Sea, it is also affected a bit by the sea.

No one knows what the Order of Thinkers has bene doing for the past twenty years.

But the world powers could not just leave them alone.

After all, their leader is incarcerated by them and there is always a possibility that the Order of

Thinkers would rebel against the world order.

If that happens, and another war happens, then the project of peace that they all work on would be destroyed. So, there is a supervision force from the World Council stationed near the

Order of Thinkers research hub.

And nowadays, there is disturbing news coming from the Order of Thinkers.

There is some rumours in the black market that there is some rebellious element inside the Order of Thinkers that wanted to release the Grand Researcher.

There is many people that remembers that the Order of Thinkers does have relations with the

Crime Alliance. Before the war between Death Monarch and Kaiju, Order of Thinkers and the

Crime Alliance has a very profitable arrangement. >>