[Nomic] Three proposals

[John-Joseph Wilks]

>
>I would like to propose three changes, each of which creates a new rule:
>
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>Rule of Self-Image
>
>The game shall have a name, which will be "Terrapin Nomic".

Sounds good. Suggest a committee name of "The Great Council of the Elder 
Turtles" to go with this.

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>Rule of Conflict
>
>If a Judgement Procedure as defined by the rules determines that two or 
>more rules are in conflict and that it it not clear from the rules which of 
>them should take precedence, the entity which initiated that Judgement 
>Procedure may create and publically present a Conflict Resolution Roadmap.
>
>A Conflict Resolution Roadmap is a document which describes changes to the 
>rules intended solely to remove the conflict in question. Once a CRR has 
>been presented, the changes it describes will take effect on the rules. Any 
>changes described by a Conflict Resolution Roadmap which have effects other 
>than to resolve the conflict the Roadmap was created to address will not be 
>applied and the creator of the Roadmap will be guilty of the crime of 
>Deviousness.

Like it. Although obviously we will want to define a Judgement procedure 
*before* we actually need one, it can and probably should wait until the 
rules flesh out a bit more. I am slightly worried about the possibility of 
having a conflict such that all possible resolutions of that conflict change 
other things as well, although it's possible such cannot actually exist.

>============================================== And There Shall Be No 
>Lizardmen
>
>Any entity which is a member of the List of Voters may cause itself to be 
>immediately removed from the List of Voters by publically announcing itself 
>to be a lizardman from Antares IV. The entity in question is encouraged to 
>use this opportunity to mock the puny humans for their pathetic inability 
>to see the truth until it was too late. 
>==============================================

Might as well have a rule to allow somebody to remove themselves from the 
game, sounds like a good way to do it.

So, in summary, aye to all 3.

JJ

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