From: To: agora-off Subject: OFF: CFJ 1185 Judged FALSE Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 3:06 PM ====================================================================== CFJ 1185 Agora is an independent nation and not bound by the laws of any other State in existence. ====================================================================== Called by: t Judge: Crito Judgement: FALSE Judge selection: Eligible: Crito, Elysion, harvel, Kolja, Lee, Michael, Murphy, Palnatoke, Peekee, Steve, Wes Not eligible: Caller: t Barred: - Had their turn: Chuck Already served: - Defaulted: - By request: Blob On Hold: elJefe ====================================================================== History: Called by t: 07 Dec 1999 15:15:40 +0200 Assigned to Crito: 07 Dec 1999 23:28:14 -0800 Judged FALSE by Crito: 08 Dec 1999 14:43:57 -0500 Judgement Distributed: As of this message ===================================================================== Caller's Arguments: Rule 101 explicitly states that "Whatever is not prohibited or regulated by the Rules is permitted and unregulated, with the sole exception of changing the Rules". Only one exception is given and no other rules or laws are mentioned. ====================================================================== Evidence attached by the Caller: ====================================================================== Judge's Arguments: As has been pointed out by Steve, Agora does not fit any definition of "nation" that I am aware of, making the first half of the above conjunction false. The second half of the conjunction is more interesting, so I'll have some fun ad dressing it anyway. It seems to me that Agora itself is not the kind of entity that can be said to be bound by any laws. So I would be inclined to consider that portion true. Of course, this does not prevent the individual Players from being bound by the laws of existing States. ======================================================================