On Wed, 2017-08-23 at 23:06 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I'm not seeing how Organizations are any different though? > It cloaks things in "appropriate" changes of switches to different > text values, but that's just amending legal codes just the same...?
It was meant to be a pragmatised but non-subjective enforcement mechanism based on having penalties that were fixed in advance, as a method of backing a currency. (Remember that we didn't have an economy at the time, and contract-based currencies tend to massively inflate due to not being backed by anything.) In other words, a "breach" changed a number in a predictable way, and unlike SHALLs (which you aren't supposed to violate), incurring a penalty on an Organization was intended to be something you could do intentionally if you wished without any ethical problems. I'm not sure it was different enough, though. -- ais523
