Re: [s-b] Consultation 203

[Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 15:54 +0000, James Baxter wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:45:50 -0800
> > From: emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [s-b] Reassignments
> > 
> > I assign Consultation 203 to Priest JamesB.
>  
> Consultation 203 is: Rule 5e57 exists
>  
> I answer Consultation 203 YES.
>  
> Reasoning: {ais523 failed to change the contract as nothing gave him
> the power to change the Rules. Since the Rules specified were not
> destroyed, ais523 could not change the contract. If ais523 had
> submitted a Tweak and activated it, that would have been allowed. If
> ais523 had submitted a proposal which passed, that would have been
> allowed.
>  
> To summarize: ais523 cannot change the gamestate like that (at least I
> don't think so - this is dependent upon Consultation 198 becoming
> pondered with an answer of NO).}

I claim this INCONSISTENT. Rule 5e10 indeed allows me to change the
gamestate like that.

Rule 5e57 allowed me to amend a contract via a method specified in the
contract. Rule 5e10 means that if a rule specifies I can do something
(such as amend a contract using a method specified in it), I can do it
as a game action. Therefore, the combination of the two rules meant that
I (or anyone else) could change the rules as a Game Action.

"Contracts may be modified with the explicit approval of all parties, as
well as in any other way allowed by that Contract." implies "Contracts
may be modified in any way (apart from with the explicit approval of all
parties) allowed by that Contract." implies "Unrest may be modified by
repealing rule 5e57 and (more stuff here).". Combining that with "A Game
Action is defined as any activity specified by the Rules that changes
the state of the game. [...] Game Actions occur upon reaching the
appropriate fora, in the order they arrived." implies "Modifying Unrest
via repealing rule 5e57 and (more stuff here) is a Game Action. That
action occurs upon reaching the Public Forum [the appropriate forum]."

So in other words, the rules did indeed allow me to modify the rules in
order to modify the contract. (Modifying the contract, of course, was
incidental.)
-- 
ais523

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