Re: spoon-discuss: For discussion, before I make it an official revision

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:53 AM 1/11/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> Thus spake "Jonathan Van Matre":
> > Ye gods, the cause of judicial reform has proved a heavy burden to bear.
>
> A very difficult problem, to be sure. I recall devoting considerable effort
> to it in Berserker and A Nomic, to no effect. (We had a win or two awarded
> because of flaws in the judicial system, IIRC.) I'm now convinced that you
> can't legislate a "fair" judiciary, you just have to rely on the goodwill
> of players to constitute one.
>
> My $0.02, and I'm not a player anyhow, so... :)

One underlying problem is that the Judges are also Players and are thus not 
impartial.