> On Sep 23, 2017, at 5:10 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-09-23 at 00:54 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> The idea is that someone seeking to create a contract can instead >> create a pledge, and then (in the same message, probably) create an >> aggregate containing the pledge and the other affected assets. This >> is limited - you can’t contract duties this way, only assets - but >> incredibly flexible as to what kinds of obligation may be >> transferred. Even if you receive an unwelcome pledge this way, you >> have ownership of it, and may retract it. > > You can mousetrap someone by giving them a pledge that they're already > platonically breaking, and then calling em on it immediately. That > doesn't seem right to me.
If the pledges-as-assets proposal passes, then someone trying this would need some co-conspirators. Calling in a pledge, under that proposal, requires Agoran Consent and therefore requires at least one supporting player. I have enough faith in Agorans as a whole to believe that at least someone would object to calling in such a pledge. Once you own the pledge you can also defuse it by withdrawing the pledge. If the giver really, _really_ doesn’t want you to do that, they can object more or less indefinitely, but it would be incredibly poor sportspersonship to do so. You’re not wrong, but I don’t think it’s as dangerous as that. -o
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