On Sun, 18 Jun 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: > I tend to treat the rule about consent as an informative observation about > the nature of Agora, and not as a normative part of the rules. It memorializes > the observation that we all agree that Agora Is A Game, and that playing is > voluntary. We recognize that any rules which purport to bind people without > their consent are ineffective, but it’s not the rule that makes that true.
The purpose of that clause is direct: to prevent and block mousetraps, so that it forbids Agoran courts from enforcing mousetrap agreements, both for players and non-players. It's not a historical observation at all, but serves a very real protective purpose. It prevents a player from being penalized with Agoran markers of shame (cards and the like), so it should do the same for non-players, even if the non-Agorans wouldn't "care".
