On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 2:20 PM Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, VJ Rada wrote: > > > I support: I didn't pay for the Estate. > > > > > > Pledges are great right now! I love them. The "explicit restatement" rule > > > should be removed though. > > > > I agree I prefer a lightweight, straightforward, relatively easy-to-track > > (and free!) option instead of getting bogged down with the whole Contract > > machinery. > > > You're suggesting that we keep the system in which punishment is decided > purely democratically, rather than based off of having done anything wrong? > Right now our pledge system is based on bills of attainder (or more > correctly bills of pains and penalties), rather than justice.
Well *someone* said they were working to reform the whole justice system, so I'd rather fix this during that :) :). But yes, I voted Against the current method of penalizing pledge-breakers, and I'd vote to change it back to something like it was. But I wouldn't do that by tying it to the full weight of contracts as they exist now. -G.
