On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote: > > If so, it means that self-ratification is simply an admission that, > in spite of R1698, we are not in fact playing a nomic, but rather > playing a system where we can arbitrarily make any change by > unanimous consent (to ignore the falsehood), regardless of whether > the proposal process exists. In other words, we've formally > agreed to accept any metagame falsehood as long as consent to > accept it is unanimous; this is hardly a comfortable position for > a nomic to be in. >
On the contrary, it means that self-ratification is a mechanism by which the gamestate can be changed without bound by common consent - and that this is one of the game's built-in methods of self-amendment, which seems entirely nomic-appropriate to me. - teucer
