Re: [spoon-discuss] Pretty. What do we blow up first?

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Real war I disapprove of.  Nomic war, though?  Now that's interesting.  I 
> am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.  Tell 
> me more...
>
>
> -0-The Voice-0-
-Well, since you asked so nicely, let me give the basic outline of this. The 
trick, of course, is getting the other Nomic to comply. If they don't, I'm 
not sure what we do, so that'll have to be worked out later.
   First, we make a rule which says that if any B Nomic rules are stored on 
any website, they must be amended appropriately every time the rules are 
amended. Next, we make the entire ruleset of another Nomic into a rule, 
stating in the rule that the text of the rule can be found at the URL of 
that Nomic's ruleset. Then we amend that rule (their ruleset) any way we 
want.
   In fact, this is completely legal, due to that oh-so-important default 
clause: any action which is not prohibited or regulated is allowed and 
unregulated. Only one Nomic that I have found has protection: Nomicron makes 
the creation of rules an exception to that. So we are allowed to take their 
ruleset apart or reshape it because /nothing says we can't./ Good, eh?
   And we're already mostly protected - the Council of Elders can undo any 
nasty changes, while at the same time stopping them from getting their own 
Council.
   "A suffusion of yellow" indeed...-

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