Accepted Murder

Everyone knows the government can sometimes be quite erratic in their choice of laws; sometimes even making a law that was voted to pass unanimously across the entire world (Which would seem odd, considering practically every world leader hates each other). Even with the rareness of the possibility of one law being unanimously agreed upon between every country in the world, one law happened to pass in that distinction. It took six years, eight weeks and forty two hours before it was voted upon. Changes upon changes were put into the scripts of it, ultimately making it acceptable for everyone. Well, the world leaders that is. To put it lightly, to the people of the world the law was…debatable.

The new countries that formed after World War III were the first to agree upon it. After all, they’d just been formed, and did not want a new war to erupt due to minor technicalities and end up losing their new found home. However, the world powers (they hadn’t changed much) America, Germany, and Ireland (The newest of the powers), were the most adamant about the law being passed. And in turn it made the countries of Australia (which was defined a country as well as a continent a while back), Canada, Torli (a newly formed country), Alfin (Another new country) and Russia (They lost their authority during the course of the third World War while fighting with Germany and what is now Luistan) decide to follow along with it. The other countries were skeptical but with the given time decided to pass it.

After it was passed is when the trouble began.

It may have outraged many people, but for some others it gave hope. Imagine being able to make the man who killed your child all those years ago pay, without punishment. Or killing off that source of “entertainment” the entirety of the world seemed to enjoy (Aside from yourself that is). Well. The government finally gave the people this right. Every country in the world agreed upon it, only because the world was becoming too overpopulated. None the less, it was agreed: every human being had the right to kill one person with the right paperwork; and if one can afford to, one can buy their own protection. (The last part had been added on later after numerous attempted murders of world leaders.)

It was July 18th, 2022 that it was announced. In the beginning people started going crazy, fearing that they would be killed without even a second thought. But on July 30th, 2022, the government decided to add some sub-points to the law, to make sure that people didn't go too insane with the idea of an accepted murder.

The first one was of course the right to buy your own protection. Originally it was meant for those who had the power; but after many outbursts, the right was brought public, and anyone who could afford the Protection Papers, was allowed to buy them; anyone who couldn’t would either perish or be lucky to not be hated.

The second one was that only one person is allowed to have the papers (the papers are what give you the right to kill someone. Without them, you will be arrested and killed in the most brutal way possible. Also, without the papers you will not be given any type of permission to enter a building to kill someone. Papers are required to even buy a weapon) to kill somebody. So if one person wanted to put a “hit” on Paris Hilton, for example, they would pay for the registration paperwork, and then nobody else could put a hit on her. That one person would have the right to kill her in any way they so chose to. But if Paris had a protection paper (Which she does) then nobody was allowed to kill her at all.

The third, and final, sub point had been that anyone could buy protection paperwork for another person. Say a fan learns that her favorite singer or band has not bought their protection, she has the right to buy the rights to their protection, thus keeping them from being put on the list to be hit.

“Yes, mother. I know. Look, I'm next. Alright. Bye.” Chara Zander sighed, pushing the end call button on her sleeve, relieved to finally get off the phone with her exhausting mother.