spoon-business: CFJ: Double Standard

["Donald Whytock" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Statement:

CFJ 251, that non-player entities' votes should count since they are not regulated as players, was judged false; the analysis included the following:

"Rule 30, which reads "Each Player may cast exactly one vote on each proposal on any given Ballot.", serves to regulate the action of voting. Since voting is thus regulated by the rules, non-player entities may only vote as specified by the rules. No rule specifies how a non-player entity should vote."

In other words, if there is a rule that mentions how a given action is performed under certain circumstances, said action cannot be performed under any other circumstances.

Yet, CFJ 249, that certain proposals that didn't use the Standard Delimiters from rule 217, was also judged false; the analysis included the following:

"Rule 217 merely defines the standard delimeters; nowhere does it require that they are used."

In other words, just because there is a rule that mentions how a given action is performed under certain circumstances, said action is not prevented from being performed under any other circumstances.

These two judgments are contradictory; therefore one of them must be invalid.

						Glotmorf