On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Elliott Hird wrote: > 2008/7/18 Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Why? Partnerships are a rules-based constructs with no inherent natural >> rights. -Goethe > > Being able to post to a-b is not exactly an inherent natural right.
R101, when I wrote it, was an experiment in "Agora as a society": if we have real persons trying to exist, live or participate in a virtual society that preserves, respects, or protects the natural rights of its participants, what rights should be guaranteed? For a virtual society, the right to speech, courts, non-coercion, depart. On a secondary level, it was an experiment in a "joint mediation service" for contracts, as David prompted us to try for years. So, what "natural" rights would you expect if you were allowing Agora to govern or mediate "natural" contracts that persons might create with each other? Though with Equity in the gutted state it is, that one isn't working out so well. That said, of course it's just a game. It would be just as fun to turn Agora Imperial, or anything else. But while R101 is in it's current form I'm defending this experiment for what it is. -Goethe
