[Nomic] Attempted scam...

[John-Joseph Wilks]

>
> > That, however, is complete bollocks, since the English language defines 
>what
> > an entity is. How, please, do you think it might be defined such that 
>the
> > List of Voters is not an entity?
>
>  "Something that has a real existence", "What exists" -- OED.
>
>
> > >  Therefore I assert that a List of Voters is not an entity, so rule 1
> > >does not apply.
> > >
> > >  I create a List of Voters with my own name on it.
> >
> > What allows you to do this, even without the above objections?
>
>  Nothing restricts me in any way from doing so, since (by my argument)
>the LoV isn't an entity existing within the game (and anyway, I'm
>creating it; not changing it).

However, the rules are descriptive, not proscriptive. They don't tell you 
what you can't do, they tell you what happens when you do do something you 
can do. And they don't  say you *can* do this. Therefore while you can claim 
that, it has no meaning within the game.

JJ
>
>  Incidently, I agree that this is a pile of nitpicking arguments; but
>it's no more nitpicking than people who argue that the Rule of Assumed
>Consent doesn't work properly...
>
>  WC.
>
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