I temporarily deputize for the Arbitor to assign the following CFJs, hereby numbered 3935 and 3936, to Murphy.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:30:54 -0700 Caller: G. I call the following two linked CFJs, barring nix: 1. Evantine holds the patent title Fugitive. 2. R. Lee is a Fugitive. CALLER'S ARGUMENTS Proposal 8617, which took effect recently, reads as follows: >> ID: 8617 >> Title: Forgiveness >> Adoption index: 1.0 >> Author: nix >> Co-authors: G. >> >> >> Agora formally forgives all fugitives listed on the most recent scroll >> of Agora. >> But there are 3 senses that the word "fugitive" has meaning in Agora. 1. Proposal 4867 (adopted August 2006) awarded a group of people the patent title Fugitive[1]. Evantine is an example of that [2]. 2. People were "unofficially" added to the list in the Herald's scroll when they deregistered while under some kind of penalty, after the above set of patent titles was awarded. However, on the scroll, the distinction between "patent title holder" and "unofficial added person" was lost over time. Quazie is an example of that. 3. Rule 2555/10 currently defines "fugitive" as someone with one or more blots who is deregistered. At the time that Proposal 8617 was adopted, R. Lee was an example of that. I'm assuming the "unofficial" additions to the fugitive list in the scroll like Quazie are at the discretion of the Herald to remove. For the first CFJ (on Evantine), Rule 649/44 secures Patent Titles as Power 1, so if Proposal 8617 had used language to explicitly revoke the fugitive patent title from all holders of the title, it would have succeeded. So the question (on Evantine) is whether "formally forgives all fugitives listed on the most recent scroll of Agora" is a reasonable synonym for revoking the patent title Fugitive, especially when there's a different explicit definition of fugitive in the rules. A possible complication - when the scroll was ratified in October 2019[3], the scroll explicitly said that fugitive was an "unofficial designation". This was likely incorrect immediately before ratification (some of them were patent titles), but did that ratify those away because they were explicitly ratified to be "unofficial" and therefore not patent titles? For the second CFJ (R. Lee), e was an explicitly rules-defined 2-Blot holding fugitive at the time Proposal 8617 was adopted, e was literally "listed on the most recent scroll of Agora" as a Champion, Badge-holder, etc., and "formal forgiveness" in the current ruleset is the expungement of blots, and that fits the common language definition of forgiving a punishment. Did this expunge eir blots, causing em to cease being a fugitive? CALLER'S EVIDENCE [1] Excerpt from adoption message https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2006-August/002692.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amend Rule 1505 (Standard Classes of Crimes and Infractions) to be called "Dishonor Rolls" and amend it to read: When the Herald is ordered to place someone in the Chokey, e shall publically award em the patent title "In the Chokey". This title shall be automatically revoked after a length of time indicated by the sentencing order, and the Herald shall announce the revokation. If a sentencing order is executed against a defendant who already holds this title, the length of time of the new sentencing order shall be added to the time left on any previous ones. A person is considered to be In Disgrace while in the Chokey, between the execution and satisfaction of any sentencing orders binding em, or if deregistered for lawlessness. A person who leaves the game in disgrace shall be awarded the Patent Title Fugitive by the Herald. A Player may revoke the title Fugitive from emself as long as e is no longer in Disgrace. A non-player may have this title revoked by Agoran Consent. The rules may further specify actions prohibited to persons in particular types of disgrace. The Herald is encouraged to publish lists of those in disgrace separate from patent titles of honor, to indicate the disgrace. When this Proposal takes effect, all persons who were fugitives when this proposal was adopted are hereby awarded the patent title Fugitive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [2] https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?1591 https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?1592 https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?1593 [3] Ratification message: https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2019-October/041613.html Referring to this scroll: https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2019-September/013164.html
