On May 27, 2013 11:26 AM, "Tanner Swett" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Comment: I find it really weird that in Agora, a sentence can go into effect while it's still possible for it to be appealed and overturned. Why do we have a period of time during which we're unsure whether or not a sentence should be applied, and yet we apply it anyway? I think we ought to just make it so that a sentence doesn't go into effect until it's too late to overturn it. > > —Machiavelli
Same reason they work that way in real life: to avoid use foreknowledge to avoid the sentence.
