RE: spoon-discuss: RE: spoon-business: Proposal: No Kickbacks (Justice, Administered Piecemeal)

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:56 AM 1/15/2002 -0600, you wrote:

> You said yourself, an inquest is to find out what happened.  The inquest
> / CFJ establishes a course of events that took place in the past, as
> well as a decision on the legality of those events.  What it can't do is
> un-event those events -- a murder inquest can't un-murder a body, a
> Senate hearing on a political scandal can't un-publicize the scandal.
> Remedial actions are taken in the here and now.  When things can be
> undone in the same way they were done, they are (e.g. the Secretary of
> the Treasury embezzles $1 billion, so it is taken back into the Treasury
> from eir Grand Cayman bank account), and it is *as if* they never
> happened.  But in other cases, such as a very dead, very murdered corpse
> (or to offer a potential game example, a player has resigned the game
> due to the illegal action taken against em by another player), the
> correction cannot directly undo the course of events, so a suitable
> remedy is chosen (such as penalizing the person / player responsible).

Bingo. Dead on accurate. Well spoken.

If I had any points beyond the three I got for being funny, I'd give you 
one...but I'm too stingy right now.

--gritter