Watching the actions of the past week, including extensive use of conditionals, e.g.:
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2017-November/037396.html makes me feel like we've suddenly allowed beyond-a-reasonable-effort hard-to-interpret conditionals that we didn't used to allow, and that the courts or legislative need to enter a strong check to this kind of thing. But maybe I'm just too old-fashioned. On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Alexis Hunt wrote: > I'm generally philosophically opposed to arbitrarily complex actions taken > "by announcement". > > CFJ 1774 is, I think, the strongest precedent we have here. The CFJ is > clear that you can't, by default, take an action by announcement > ambiguously; the use of shorthands (and, by extension, conditionals) are a > convenience but not one that can be used abusively. > > On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 at 19:04 Corona <liliumalbum.ag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I thought about including a simple backup clause, but I ran out of time. > > > > On 11/26/17, Alexis Hunt <aler...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 at 18:58 Corona <liliumalbum.ag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> The following 5 paragraphs apply to all actions taken in this message, > > >> other text to the contrary notwithstanding: > > >> > > > > > > I'm willing to argue that most of this message fails due to being too > > > complicated to resolve, but I'm gonna sit this one out and let others > > argue > > > about it. > > > > > >
