Re: [s-d] [s-b] Inflationary Language

[Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But Blue Corp explicitly says "The Motion is a Game Document", which 
noone has autorization to create.

Wasn't Black Corp (illegally) forked from the same text?


Tyler wrote:
> The way I see it, Motions are not Game Documents, since they aren't defined
> anywhere in the Rules. They don't exist in the game, and aren't Game
> Objects. They exist in our collective emails, heads, and wiki pages, but
> nothing says a Contract can't allow changes to itself based on things that
> don't exist in the game. Rule 70 says "A Contract may be changed only as the
> text of that Contract allows." Black's Contract says it allows
> Motions, (although they don't exist in the game,) to be the basis for
> changes to the Contract.
>
> You might argue that things that don't exist in the game don't exist for
> purposes of the game. However, Rule 2 itself implicitly recognizes things
> that don't exist in the game. "and anything that is not an Object is not in
> the game."
>
> Motions are not in the game, but effect the game in a very game-real way,
> through the text of Black's Contract. They are External Forces, just like
> the people that play this game.
>
> So no need to backtrack gamestate.
>
>   

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