a) creates kingmaker scenarios

b) ruins the point of trading knights with your ally as an act of war

c) but mostly a)

I just want to say this so that anyone who has/will vote differential knows, I have no intention of voting on this what so ever. I say this so you can change or not cast the differential vote if you want too.

To explain this if you care, it falls to the fact that I believe in the neutrality of the Emperor(Arbiter). I don’t believe I can make a neutral decision on this as it stands. I want to vote for because I like the idea and had discussed such an idea before. The problem comes at the reason I never proposed such an idea before, and the thing Clucky pointed, it is a really easy way to have a kingmaker senario. This makes me want to vote against it and were these the only factors I would probably be able to make a decision, though I know not what it would be. The third thing at play is that one person is a friend of mine outside blognomic and the passing of this would be greatly to his benefit. This is causing me the problem that I want to vote for but I don’t know if this is just out of a desire to aid him or if I would do so regardless of who, if anyone,was helped by it. So I feel the best thing to do is just not to vote, but I wanted to let people know so we didn’t end up with a bunch of differentials on this, expecting me to vote.

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SK
What exactly is the problem with a kingmaker? It seems to be in the spirit of a Nomic.