[BNomic-Public] Third

[Daniel Lepage]

On Sep 15, 2004, at 10.46 AM, Araltaln wrote:

> <cfi>
> <title>Newton's Third Law</title>
> <birthdate>
>   <day>15</day>
>   <month>9</month>
>   <year>2004</year>
> </birthdate>
> <plaintiff> Araltaln </plaintiff>
> <defendant> Wonko </defendant>
> <statement> Wonko failed to fulfill the Election Duty on his second
> attempt and all attempts thereafter. </statement>
> <ptiff_anal> The Election Duty requires that an Election be called on
> every Open Ministry--however, Elections cannot be started on
> Ministries which already have Elections running. Therefore, Wonko
> could not complete the Game Actions necessary to complete this Duty.
> </ptiff_anal>
> </cfi>
>
> Note: I can't assign a Judge at random without being able to see a
> list of those persons in the Upper House. And, to my knowledge, the
> only such list is on the Wiki.

http://www.bnomic.org/wiki/ stores the list as it was a few nweeks ago; 
if it hasn't changed much, then you can use this.

I also wish to submit my own analysis:
<def_anal>

To understand why my actions are legal, look at r1583 [[Duties]]. 
Section A.1 of this rule states "When a Duty Requires Attention, any 
player who is not otherwise barred from performing that Duty may 
perform it."
Look also at section C.2, which includes: "It shall be the 
responsibility of the Player carrying out the Duty to call an Election 
for all Free Ministries."

These two sentences taken together indicate that when the Election Duty 
requires attention, any player who is not forbidden from calling an 
Election on all Free Ministries may do so.

The Plaintiff's argument revolves around the claim that the rules make 
it illegal to call an Election for a Ministry if an Election is already 
in progress for that Ministry; however, this claim is not supported by 
the rules.

It is my belief that the plaintiff was confused by r625.B, which states 
"Any player may start an Election for any Open Ministry as a Game 
Action, provided that the Ministry has been Open for at least five 
ndays and there is not already an Election in progress for that 
Ministry".

This clause has no bearing on my actions: although it gives one set of 
circumstances under which an election may be called, it does not state 
or imply that calling an election is illegal under all other 
circumstances. Thus, it does not forbid be from calling elections as 
per rule 1583.

Note: The following past precedents relate to this case:
1) Past use of ministries and deputies confirms that when the rules 
state "player X is responsible for doing Y", it is implicit in this 
that player X is empowered to do Y (indeed, some Ministries, and my own 
deputyship and thus the game, would be rendered completely 
nonfunctional under the current rules were this otherwise).
2) Former CFIs have supported the interpretation that a rule saying 
"players may do X if Y is true" should not be interpreted to forbid 
players from doing X when Y is false when another rule allows X to be 
done.
</def_anal>

-- 
Wonko