Friday, May 21, 2010

Proposal: Argument: Mightier Than Thou

Author already had 2 pending proposals. -Bucky

Adminned at 21 May 2010 08:22:54 UTC

According to Rule 2.14:

The {pen} is {mightier} than the {sword}.

Also according to Rule 2.14:

Anyone possessing a Sword may, as a weekly action, change the Culture of any Blognomicker to “Nearly headless”.

Therefore, by Rule 2.11:
1 - Add “Headless” to the list of possible Cultures in rule 2.4
2 - Create a sub-rule to rule 2.12 entitled “Fighting Scribes” with the text:

Anyone possessing a Pen, may, as a weekly action, change the Culture of any Blognomicker to “Headless”.

I’m not sure why nearly headless is a culture instead of simply a state of being, but I’m going with the flow and assuming that headless is the same.

posted by lilomar at 21 May 2010 06:06:53 UTC Comments (2)

Comments

Klisz:

21-05-2010 12:53:16 UTC

for

spikebrennan:

21-05-2010 13:16:35 UTC

Quoting Rule 2.11:
“An Argument is a type of Proposal that does not introduce one or more Hooks, but instead proposes to establish a meaning for one or more Hooks through deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning or both”

Your purported “argument” doesn’t establish a meaning for one or more hooks; rather, it amends the ruleset directly.  Therefore it’s not really an argument.

Because lilomar already has two pending Proposals (stack and location), this purported “argument” is not a valid proposal.