Re: 229:1 (INVALID, +0.0)

From: Aron Wall (aron_at_wall.org)
Date: Thu Dec 16 2004 - 10:30:45 PST


Aron Wall wrote:

> Chuck Carroll wrote:
>
> > >Places restrictions on a past round (221). INVALID.
> >
> > Why would that invalidate the rule?
> >
> > Chuck
>
> Because a restriction on rules from a previous round implies that ones
> rule has the power to restrict those rules, contradicting the R.O.'s.
> Nor can one argue that the restriction is purely descriptive, rather
> than restrictive, because the restriction was not in fact followed in
> that past round.  Therefore it seems to me that any rule which requires
> rules in past rounds to do what they did not do is INVALID.
>
> Aron Wall


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