If you're interested in judging, I'm happy to assign this to you! While your conclusion is still speculative your reasoning so far is solid.
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Jack Henahan wrote: > My reading of the rules also suggests that a pledge without a defined > completion state may be considered broken by design, and therefore could > be argued to be invalid. > > To use the example which I presume prompted this CFJ, nichdel's pledge > > > I pledge not to acknowledge any messages Cuddle Beam sends to a-d, or > > to respond in a-d to anything CB does. > > I would argue that such a pledge is by broken [1] by definition because it > cannot be completed in a timely fashion as defined by Rule 1023 [2] > after it becomes possible to do so, precisely because it is impossible > to reach a condition under which it might be considered complete. > > By this reading, there is a legal definition of a broken pledge, to wit, > "a pledge not completed in a timely manner after it is possible to do > so", and "a pledge which proscribes certain behavior whose terms have > been violated by the actions of the pledger". > > Perhaps this calls for a Pledge Switch, so that a Pledge may be either > Active, Fulfilled, or Broken. Then we might legislate the events which > alter the position of the switch. > > All that said, though, there are no explicit limits on what constitutes > a pledge, so my reading is purely speculative. > > [1]: http://agoranomic.org/ruleset/#Rule2450 > [2]: http://agoranomic.org/ruleset/#Rule1023 > > Nic Evans <nich...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I call the following CFJ, using AP: "A pledge can only be broken once." > > > > Arguments: > > > > Consider the text of R2450: > > > > "A player <http://agoranomic.org/ruleset/#Rule869> SHALL NOT > > <http://agoranomic.org/ruleset/#Rule2152> break eir own publicly-made > > pledges. > > > > A pledge may be considered broken if the pledger does not complete it in > > a timely <http://agoranomic.org/ruleset/#Rule1023> manner after it > > becomes possible to do so. A pledge may be considered broken at the > > moment the pledger engages in conduct proscribed by that pledge." > > > > There's no legal definition of 'broken' in the ruleset. In common usage, > > we have several type of breaking: > > > > * Breaking a contract. Doing so leaves you up for punishment, but it > > also nullifies the contract. > > > > * Breaking a promise.'By default' doing so nullifies the promise. In > > cases where it doesn't, it's because the involved parties discuss > > continuing it (arguably creating a new promise). > > > > * Breaking a system. Once a physical or conceptual system is broken it > > remains so until repaired. You can do further damage and even 'break it > > more' but it's already broken and you can't break it anew. > > > > Under all these, it appears you can't break what's broken until it's > > remade or repaired. There is no rule defined method to repair a pledge. > > Thus, when someone first breaks a pledge it remains broken, and cannot > > be broken again. > > > -- > ProofTechnique >
