On Thu, 8 May 2008, Alexander Smith wrote: > But rule 101 doesn't prevent players doing anything. Rule 101 is entirely > concerned with allowing players to do things (as its title suggests).
No, the fact that the Rules exist at all and Players bind themselves to the Rules prevents players from doing anything (otherwise they're not rules). R101 then graciously allows players to do unregulated things thereby rendering the governance of regulated things unto itself. (It could be argued that R101 simply recognizes certain natural rights that exist anyway... but that's not a logical within-Rules argument, that's an argument about the whether the Ruleset agrees with the meta-rules that "natural rights" amount to... writing a thesis on Agoran natural rights picking up where CFJ 1272 left off is somewhere on my 'to do' list). -Goethe
