How about a version that says "a player can't cease being a person while
they are a player"? Then we could respectfully deregister someone if the
worst happens and not worry too much about 'forever'.
-G.
That would solve most recordkeeping problems, but it would still mean
Tailor and Referee reports could be incorrect without our knowledge.
Hmm - Fugitive blots decay, and ribbons are probably easy to reconstruct
(slow moving). Not perfect but also doesn't propagate errors like
registration, etc.?
We could try defining personhood by saying any entity meeting the
conditions becomes a person if e wasn't already, and not adding any
conditions under which an entity stops being a person, thus avoiding the
word "forever", but that would be kind of weird.
Maybe we should go with our suggested text.
I don't mind too much if "forever" is truly the cleanest way, that won't
kill my vote this time.
-G.
Another way to avoid "forever":
{
Amend Rule 896 by inserting the following sentence after the first:
Anyone who was a person in the past, according to the definition in
the previous sentence, is still a person now.
after the first sentence.
}
I'm assuming your objection to "forever" is that then the rule might be
claiming that anyone who's a person now stays a person forever even if
we amend the definition of person later to be more restrictive. Is that
right? I think this version avoids that (but is more wordy).
--
Falsifian
