| Doig, Gavin on 21 Jan 2002 13:12:07 -0000 |
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| RE: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proosal |
> If Uncle Psychosis' Proposal 277/1 ("The dust you seldom see") passes and
> Uncle Psychosis' Proposal 279 ("Walk unafraid") fails in repealing Rule 10,
> Uncle Psychosis will have created a paradox because both Rule 10 and the
> rule resulting from Proposal 227 will declare that "This rule takes
> precedence over all other rules."
>
> No two rules can simultaneously take precedence over each other.
>
We'll have a situation where one rule claims one thing, and another rule claims another. The fact that what they claim is to have precedence over each other is irrelevant. If rule 10 said "X is false", and the new rule (whatever number it gets) said "X is true", then, yes, the p227 rule would state that something was true which was false. That's not a paradox, that's the precedence system. Like Rob says, r10 wins. It's either that, or we have a paradox every time any 2 rules conflict with each other about anything - not really a sensible interpretation.
If we didn't have precedence, then it would be a paradox, because we'd have no way of deciding which of them wins.
Although, even if it were a paradox... so what? That's only important if they conflict with each other over something that'll cause the gamestate to be undecidable, and I can't see how that would happen. Especially since rule 10 doesn't *do* anything.
Having said that, I guess this might be considered the asked-for example of rule 10 being harmful. Repeal rule 10! ;-)
uin.
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