Re: [s-b] Consultation 170

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:30 PM, James Baxter <jebaxter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> >Submitted by teucer 16 Dec 2008
> >
> >Do Pondered Consultations create precedents that affect how to accurately
> judge other Consultations?
> >
> >Reasoning: if Pondered Consultations have truthful Answers per the
> Arguments above, then those Answers must be >taken into account by
> subsequent Consultations or the result of the gamestate is paradoxical. A No
> answer here is >obviously Inconsistent if the Answers to Pondered
> Consultations are true, by the way, but obviously correct if the >answers to
> the above two Consultations are both No. If a Yes answer becomes Pondered
> (the outcome I believe >should be the case), I'm going to make a habit of
> including relevant precedents in Consultations I submit - and >whenever
> anybody else does so I will find Inconsistent any answer that ignores them
> all.
>
> I answer YES to this consultation as the answers to consultations must be
> in keeping with previous consultations or they will be declared incosistent
> and become invalid, thus making all consultations that do not follow
> previous precedent untrue.


Sorry, but I'll have to declare this Answer to be INCONSISTENT. If an old
Consultation's Answer is clearly wrong (which is entirely possible), then
new Answers to Consultations on similar matters should be allowed to break
with that old Answer. Note that I would also have answered this question
YES. I just don't support how ironclad this reasoning makes everything
sound. I do think Consultations create precedent, but that precedent is
fallible and shouldn't be allowed to lead us down a path of endless
wrongness just because we messed up a single answer.

PS: Vote for my legal precedent proposal, and this whole issue will be
fixed. Only those answers thought to be correct and still relevant would
create effective precedent.

BP
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