Re: [s-d] Judgement draft

[Antonio Dolcetta <antonio.dolcetta@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 25 Nov 2006, at 05:32, Daniel Lepage wrote:

>
> On Nov 24, 2006, at 8:28 PM, Antonio Dolcetta wrote:
>
>>
>> On 25 Nov 2006, at 00:25, Peter Cooper Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> Antonio Dolcetta <antonio.dolcetta@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>> ===Accepting RFJs===
>>>> The selected Judge shall as a Game Action accept eir assigned  
>>>> RFJ by
>>>> changing it's state to Accepted.
>>>
>>> The "shall" here implies to me that the accepting is required.
>>>
>>> And it's "its", not "it's" here.
>>
>> Yes it's required. You can't bog down justice by deliberately not
>> accepting an assigned RFJ, you will step down from it or accept it,
>> you can't simply ignore it. Maybe it should be more explicit.
>
> But you can't enforce that. Say I get assigned a RFJ, and I simply
> don't do anything. What happens then? The rules cannot force me to do
> anything, because the rules can only force changes to objects defined
> by the rules.
>
> Also, RFJs should NOT have any sort of binding force. I cite nweek 4:
> http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/spoon-business/spoon-
> business-200201/msg00034.htm
>

I agree with that, ultimately nothing is enforceable, if a player  
deliberately chooses to ignore the rules we can't do anything about it.
As in all games the point of nomic is to follow the rules, if you  
choose not to, why are you playing at all ?


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