[MUD-Dev] New Topic: ButtheadS and Jurisprudance

[clawrenc at cup.hp.com]

In <3.0.2.32.19970815095040.0085dea0 at mail.tenetwork.com>, on 08/15/97 
   at 10:50 AM, Jeff Kesselman <jeffk at tenetwork.com> said:

>At 05:24 PM 8/14/97 PST8PDT, JCL wrote:

>>Actually I thought one of the advantages of the system was that it
>>wasn't in the slightest democratic.  (I'm not a fan of democracies or
>>democratic systems BTW)  It was expressly to prevent democratic farces

>well comapred to most of teh systems I'm modeling-- autocratic or
>single ruler systems, its VERY democratic.  Acutally sicen what you
>describe are failures in implementatiosn of democracies rather then
>the basic concept, Ild hesitate to say your mdoel is MORE democratic
>then the real world...

<kof>

Yup!  Spoofs tend to exceed their own models that way.  Thanks.

>Seems to me if you have a jury and a vote you have a democracy. Now
>aya round that... am I wrong?

Umm, sorta.  Most democratic models don't encourage the voters and the
voted object to actively prey on each other, but that's more a
(significant) character difference than a principle difference.

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