Pavitra wrote:

> On 06/04/2011 03:40 PM, Benjamin Caplan wrote:
>> I CFJ: G.'s citizenship switch is a player.
> 
> I retract this.
> 
> 
> I CFJ: Droowl is a player.
> 
> Arguments:
> 
> By R869 (How to Join and Leave Agora), citizenship is an entity switch; 
> in particular, Droowl's citizenship has a citizenship switch.
> 
> R2162 (Switches) reads in part as follows:
>                       "To become X" (where X is a possible value of
>         exactly one of the subject's switches) is to flip that switch to
>         X.
> 
> Thus, when Droowl attempted to register (that is, to cause eir 
> citizenship switch to become Registered), e thereby attempted to 
> register eir citizenship switch along with emself.
> 
> However, R869 says:
>        A non-person CANNOT be registered (or created in a Registered
>        state), rules to the contrary notwithstanding.
> 
> Thus, Droowl's attempt to register eir citizenship switch platonically 
> failed. Since the above-quoted section of R2162 ties "becoming X" 
> directly to "flipping my Y switch to X", the failure of eir switch to 
> become Registered resulted in a failure of emself to become Registered.
> 
> Therefore, Droowl is not a player.

Gratuitous:  Instances of switches are attributes of entities, not
entities in their own right.

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