On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:35 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A recent quote from ##nomic on freenode:
>
> 22:29 < ihope> I agree to the following: {This is a pledge. The Bell
> of Opening, the Candelabrum of Invocation, the Book of
> the Dead, and the Amulet of Yendor are singleton
> assets, known as Artifacts. Ownership of Artifacts is
> restricted to active players. On Agora's Birthday, if
> the Speaker is the same person as e was on Agora's last
> Birthday, e can once transfer one of the Artifacts to
> emself; this Artifact cannot be the Amulet of Yendor
> unless e possesses all three other Artifacts. If a
> person possesses all four Artifacts and is the only
> Minister Without Portfolio, e CAN ascend by announcement.
> 22:29 < ihope> Oops, I didn't mean to agree to that.
> 22:29 < ihope> Therefore, it's not really a pledge.
> 22:29 < Sgeo> ..
> 22:29 < ihope> (I thought I had removed the "I agree to the following"
> bit. And it probably got cut off anyway.)
> 22:29 < Sgeo> I didn't mean to agree to that pledge where you'd give
> me stuff and I'd give you everything
> 22:30 < Sgeo> >.>
> 22:30 < ihope> Yes, but you didn't immediately make it clear that it
> wasn't actually a pledge, and that you weren't intending
> to scam people.
> 22:30 < Sgeo> I was intending to scam people, via my belief that it
> wasn't actually a pledge
> 22:30 < ihope> You were intending to scam people, in fact.
> 22:31 < ihope> So, not a pledge.
>
> I CFJ on the statement "I created a pledge in the above quote from
> ##nomic.", submitting the above quote from ##nomic as evidence.
I think this should be FALSE. It would appear that either you're
telling the truth and you never intended it to be binding; or you're
lying, and your intent was to pretend to agree to it and then back out
in order to test it. Either way, you never intended it to be binding.
-root
