On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:24 PM Aris Merchant via agora-business <
agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 11:11 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business
> <agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 6/3/2020 11:00 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-business wrote:
> > >   A player SHALL NOT cast a ballot or induce another person to do so
> in a
> > >   way primarily intended to affect popularity. Doing so is the Class-2
> > >   Crime of Vote Manipulation.
> >
> > Notice of honour
> > -1 Aris, for starting us down the road to criminalizing intent with that
> > awful forbidden arts thing, and continuing the criminalization of intent
> > by proposing penalties for the basic free act of voting.
> > +1 D. Margaux, for being a generally good person.
>
> I retract Vote Manipulation.
>
> The forbidden arts thing doesn't even consider intent! Grumbles. This
> one *does* consider intent though, and that's a fair argument against
> it. I maintain that requiring people to at least *hide* what they're
> doing could make it more interesting. Still, since it's you, and you
> care this much, I'll retract the proposal. Next time maybe ask before
> taking the honor? "Aris, I *really* think this is a bad idea", coming
> from you, would have had the same effect.
>
> -Aris
>
Everyone's been too snippy recently.

And besides, we already criminalize intent. We do that by making it illegal
to intentionally lie to mislead.

-- 
>From R. Lee

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