Kerim Aydin wrote: >Do they? I'm not finding it. R869: "A person ... is permitted to register.". A team, even if organised under the contract law of some state, is not a person.
> I'm not sure that the Rules do >concern themselves with motives, nor should they. They don't. A single person may base eir decisions regarding Agoran actions on advice from any source, including a source that e has contracted to obey. > If I CFJ'd on >"Zefram is being paid for eir Agoran votes by the Walt Disney >Corporation, and in fact 'Zefram' is a front for the organization's >infiltration into Agora" This would be a DISMISSED if it is stipulated that the entity known as "Zefram" is actually an individual natural person (as I have claimed to be). If, however, you CFJed on "Zefram is not an individual but rather a false identity used collectively by a changing set of several Disney employees", this would very much be relevant to the rules, and should be judged FALSE (or TRUE if I've been lying). I'm making a distinction not based on how the player's decisions are reached but on whether the purported player is one person or not. There's some grey area on this issue in some cases. Hero Douglas Hofstadter's recent book "I Am a Strange Loop" discusses the fuzziness of identity and individuality somewhat; you might like to read it if you want to continue exploring where this thread is leading. -zefram
