spoon-business: CFJ 264 -- verdict

["Donald Whytock" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

CFJ 264 (Judge: Glotmorf)
CFJ by Scoff!

Phrases or lexical constructs in common usage in the ruleset, including (but not limited to) "the rules", "a proposal", or "the public forum", are already in usage in a uniquely identifying manner; players may not choose such phrases as eir player names.

I judge this to be TRUE.

Analysis:

Rule 2 explicitly states, "All game entities must have uniquely identifying names."  "Entity" is defined as "something that exists as a particular and discrete unit."  Phrases and lexical constructs are in the rules for the sole purpose of identifying game entities (as opposed to calling everything "that thing"), so by the time a player comes along and tries to select as eir identifying name the name of something else so identified, e is not uniquely identifying emself.

Conversely, though, if, for some reason, a player names emself something like, say, "The Common Good", it would then be against the rules to name some other game entity "the common good".  Rules, therefore, that mentioned "the common good", if there was a player with that name, would either be illegal or a really bad idea.

I have said.

						Glotmorf