On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Craig Daniel <teu...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Aaron Goldfein > <aarongoldf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What if the rules simply said that players must always be allowed to >> leave a contract? I'm sure that would break something, but what? >> > > Any attempt to use contracts to get people to commit to binding > obligations - which is to say, the one thing contracts are most often > used for in the real world. >
Right, so what if we just said that players must always be allowed to leave a contract unless the text of that contract is immutable. I don't think there are more than a small number of mutable contracts that impose ongoing obligations on parties, and most of those don't really need to be mutable.