Janet Cobb via agora-discussion [2023-06-26 13:28]: > On 6/12/23 13:20, juan via agora-discussion wrote: > > --- RULE PROTO --- > > Equality is a natural player switch tracked by the Nomos. > > > > The Protected Classes is a singleton switch tracked by the Nomos with > > values on lists of properties (classes) of players, without repetition, > > defaulting to the empty list. To protect a class means to set The > > Protected Classes to its former value with the specified class appended. > > > This should be a set, not a list (sets are unordered). > > What does it mean to "protect" a class already in the set?
First of all, thank you for feedback! Fair enough. It doesn't mean anything and would be redundant. > > A Policy is a document specifying a set of players without discriminating > > by any of the properties listed in The Protected Classes. > > Define "discriminating"? (Or is that intentionally for the courts to > decide?) Yeah, that's kind of the point. I was listening to some legal podcast about SCOTUS cases and obviously the issue of discrimination came up. Particularly, one decision in which the court held that discrimination based on sexual orientation is a kind of discrimination based on sex (because you'd fire a man that was attracted to other men, but not a woman in the same position). So… I thought about how would Agora deal with this kind of reasoning. I known Agorans are in general technically-oriented, so how would that affect things? > > A player CAN, once a week, perform one of these actions: > > > > - By announcement, protect a class, by specifying the property of players > > to be appended. > > > > - By announcement, enact a policy, after which the players specified in > > the specified policy have eir Equality increased by one. > > This seems like it's going to grow out of hand quickly. Also consider > the race at the beginning of the week (though I don't have any obvious > better solutions). Yes, there should be a mechanism to throttle power. The most elegant way would be protecting classes by proposal, and enacting policies more quickly, just to mimic the ways in which country laws protect classes and the executive branch acts on those. It should be interesting to see how people organize to deal with perceived inequality in policies, which is always a political and power-related issue. -- juan
