On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Owen Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 24, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote: > > - Any player with a karma of 7 or greater is a Samurai. > - Any player with a karma of -7 or less is an Eta. > > > I am _deeply_ uncomfortable with this terminology. As recently as the > mid-19th century, Japanese magistrates considered eta to be worth “one > seventh of a person,” and - going back further - the common perception is > that a samurai would experience no consequences for killing an eta, as they > are unpersons. > > I’ll likely still vote for the proposal, because I appreciate the system as > a whole, but I’d also vote for a follow-on that modifies the labels.. > > -o >
I submit the following proposal. -Aris --- Title: Pro Pace Adoption index: 1.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: o Amend the Rule entitled "Such is Karma", if there is such a rule, by replacing every instance of the word "Eta" with the word "Peasant".
