Glotmorf on 25 Apr 2003 05:38:01 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Uh... Crap...


On 4/24/03 at 11:46 PM Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:

>>From: "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Rule 11: "The ruleset may only be altered as provided therein."  That
>>pretty much regulates alterations to the ruleset, so the first line of
>Rule
>>18 doesn't apply.
>
>But, it does.  Rule 18 is a part of "therein", or the ruleset.  Same goes
>for anything else in the rules.

But not in this context, as demonstrated by the *second* line of r18: "Changing the Rules is permitted only as explicitly or implicitly described by a Rule other than this Rule or a set of Rules not including this Rule."  So r18 can't possibly enable you to make your society's charter a rule.

						Glotmorf

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