On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 May 2017, Aris Merchant wrote: >> >> I smell cheese. Lots of cheese. We already have cuttlefish, do we >> really need to Trap any Mice? >> >> Obscure history references aside, this allows someone to make a pledge >> binding on someone else (e.g. Pledge: Quazie will give me all of eir >> shinies). > > Not that we shouldn't fix the wording, but that's stopped by R869: > The Rules CANNOT otherwise bind a > person to abide by any agreement without that person's willful > consent. > (assuming we use the same common-language interpretation we have in > the past, that a pledge is a type of unilateral agreement). > That's a relief. Still, it should be in the rule itself.
-Aris
