Bryan Donlan on Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:52:50 -0600 (CST)


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Re: [s-d] Re: [auto] BeeDee submits p1976


On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:44:43 +0000, Jeremy Cook <athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:27:08PM -0500, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:48:06 +0000, Jeremy Cook <athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > The only redundant part of r10 is the part that tells us to
> > > follow r10. The rest gives us an important distinction. Maybe we
> > > should change it to, "All game entities must abide by all the
> > > Rules in effect except r10..."
> >
> > If we do that, then r10 is explicitly stating that it is powerless,
> > which is different from not indicating whether it has power. And that
> > would be equivalent to repealing it.
> 
> This I don't see. Why is that explicitly stating that r10 is
> powerless?

It is stating that game entities must abide by all rules *except* r10,
which implies that they are under no obligation to follow r10.


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bd
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