[Nomic] More Proposals

[Stuart Moore]

John-Joseph Wilks wrote:

> 1. Any two players whose locations on the Bored of Being Board are the 
> same are Friendly.
> Any player whose location is at least 4 units from all other players 
> (under a Euclidean metric) is a Loner.
> 
> 
> Just something so that we can refer to such categories later if that 
> becomes interesting.
> 
> 
> 2. Any player may spend a unit of Currency from their BANK account at 
> any time to move their location one orthogonal unit on the Board, 
> informing the other players of this fact and their new location.
> 
> 

Aye to both of the above.
> 
> 3. This one's the biggie. Half the point of proposing this is just to 
> get real discussion going on the subject:
> 
> I propose changing the wording of Rule 4, Consensus of Opinion from:
> 
> A Consensus of Opinion on a particular issue exists when one entity 
> named on the List of Voters makes a proposal describing the issue to all 
> other entities named on the List of Voters, obtains unambiguous consent 
> to that proposal from each such entity and then posts a public Notice of 
> Consensus to the other members detailing the issue upon which Consensus 
> of Opinion has been reached.
> 
> to:
> 
> A Consensus of Opinion on a particular issue exists when one entity 
> named on the List of Voters makes a proposal describing the issue to all 
> other entities named on the List of Voters, obtains unambiguous consent 
> to that proposal from each such entity that will be affected differently 
> to all other such entities and all but at most one other such entity, 
> and then posts a public Notice of Consensus to the other members 
> detailing the issue upon which Consensus of Opinion has been reached.
> 
> 
> The effect of this would be to require that a proposal passes if it is 
> voted for by all but one player, except if that player is discriminated 
> against by it (by name of Ministry post or other suchlike.
> 

Nice idea, but a little awkward, as you can argue discrimination in many 
ways. E.g. we introduce an interest rate on the bank accounts, I have 
the least money in mine so benefit least, am I discriminated against? 
What if the situation is such that everyone except me has enough money 
to do <foo> but I don't?

There are some rules where discrimination is clear, and others where 
it'd be difficult to argue discrimination. But there's a grey area