On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:20 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, there's a difference between being being unable to do something > for reasons unrelated to the law (cannot find keys; no access to email > so can't mail agora-business) and because of it (it's a super-duper > remote-controlled car which has been shut down; CANNOT).
Well, this gets into the question of whether a CANNOT in the Agoran ruleset is analogous to a law with some sort of physical enforcement power or a law of physics. I'd argue that a CANNOT implies Platonic gamestate that's impossible to change, and that a privilege to change it anyway without providing a mechanism with a greater precedence than the CANNOT is completely ineffective. I see the case of something that you CANNOT do but are privileged to do as something like if the government granted you a license to operate a faster-than-light vehicle powered by a perpetual motion machine on public roads.
