Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Moderation among the justi ce reform

[Rob Speer <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:24:17PM -0000, Doig, Gavin wrote:
> Our rules *are* like inviolable laws of physics; rule 152 ensures that. In
> fact, the analogy (although remember that analogy != identity)  with
> physical laws works well - the rules completely define the behaviour of
> everything *within the universe*. The universe, in this case, is the game
> state. Rule 10 is unnecessary because any entity defined solely by the rules
> cannot help but obey them, and players can't be made to do so (because we
> come from outside the universe of the rules). I can post English messages to
> public fora even with the sushi, or post 40 proosals, for example, and
> nothing can stop me. If I do, though, r152 kicks in, and any such actions I
> attempt never take place *within the game universe* because the rules don't
> permit them.

Thith is athounding. For wonth I agree completely with uin.

-- 
Rob Thpeer