On Jul 14, 2017, at 9:49 AM, Nic Evans <nich...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/14/17 03:24, Owen Jacobson wrote: > >> This is startlingly close to the notion of an equitable remedy, in the >> judicial sense. You may well be reconstructing contract law, but from the >> courts backwards rather than from the obligations forwards. > > That was intentional.
Well, it’s lovely. Thanks for working on this. >> I’d be sad to lose the separation between the formal judgement that someone >> is unworthy of their office and the practical punishment of being removed >> from it. It gives officers who make serious errors of judgement or character >> some opportunity to make amends, if the players as a whole are willing to >> grant some clemency. > > Are you against being able to assign that punishment at all? I may have > failed to make it clear, but all these punishments are just options for > the officer to assign; e doesn't have to assign all (or any) appropriate > punishments and players can reject a set of punishments. I find it > unlikely that Agora as a whole would accept a removal for a single crime > without a good reason. No, I’m not. I very much appreciate you framing your response this way, because it shook loose some assumptions I had been carrying over from the current system. I hadn’t quite connected the implications of requiring Agoran Consent for sentencing - on further explanation, I withdraw this remark entirely. -o
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