Re: [s-d] [s-b] If we're going to keep taking game actions through the emergency...

["Craig Daniel" <teucer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Jamie Dallaire
<bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Jamie Dallaire
>> <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > neo-dadaist alliance sounds interesting. Question (also applies to
>> > pocketbook party): What happens when parties are modifying their
>> platforms
>> > through the voting period? If a half of the parties add a given proposal
>> to
>>
>> Your obligation changes, of course.
>
>
> Then this contract needs to be changed somehow before I ever agree to join
> it. It would be ridiculous if someone were to change their platform at the
> end of the voting period, resulting in other parties not fulfilling their
> obligations simply because they weren't present in that short time window
> before the end of nday 12. This has potential for infinitely short time
> windows.

As the only party I will happily not object to me changing it, if you
have a suggestion.

>> their platform on nday 11 and i've already voted FOR, does this obligate
>> me
>> > to vote against it? Do I have a Jiffy to fulfill my obligation, even
>> though
>> > it's only possible to fulfill it during 1+ nday?
>>
>>
>> Yes to the first. And I believe if you don't vote during voting that
>> an Oracularity will likely change this fact.
>
>
> Are you saying that an Oracularity would change someone's votes? I really
> don't think that would/should happen, since obligations are not ironclad
> rules. I can't break a rule, but I can definitely choose not to fulfill an
> obligation.

If a contract obligates you to act in some way, you do so. If you
fail, a Consultation may result in you being made to have done so.

 - teucer
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