On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > R101, when I wrote it, was an experiment in "Agora as a society": > if we have real persons trying to exist, live or participate in > a virtual society that preserves, respects, or protects the natural > rights of its participants, what rights should be guaranteed? For > a virtual society, the right to speech, courts, non-coercion, depart.
Although artificial persons don't need R101 rights as such, when granted to partnerships, the rights largely serve to indirectly preserve the rights of their members. For example, R101 (v). If a partnership I'm in is forced somehow to agree to a secret contract, which imposes obligations to the partnership that devolve onto me, I can claim R101 (v) on behalf of the partnership, lest I be indirectly bound by a Mousetrap. Or R101 (iv)-- I enter into partnerships expecting that my right to enter into contracts I didn't agree to is partially preserved even with respect to indirect obligations, because the partnership has that right. Even though other partnership members might (depending on the partnership) be able to agree to contracts without my input, no outside scamster will be able to claim to extend eir contract's obligations to the partnership without prompting if such a bug is found in the relevant contract rule. Oh, and what if I agreed (say, before the initiation of inquiry and criminal cases was restricted) that I SHALL NOT initiate any CFJs, because my right to do so is satisfied by my being able to initiate CFJs on the AFO's behalf? I did not make such an agreement, but if I did, removing the AFO's right to resolve controversies would violate mine. Plus, it's fun treating partnerships like persons.
