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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9001448" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm another poster in agreement with [USER=5142]@Aldarc[/USER], [USER=99817]@chaochou[/USER] and [USER=6925338]@soviet[/USER].It seems obvious that people engaged in a rule-based pastime (like RPGing) can, by express or implicit agreement, change the rules of that pastime.This does not mean that every rule-based pastime has, as one of its rules, an express or implicit permission (vested in one or more participants) to change its rules. There are some rules-systems that may require such a rule - eg constitutional orders (although even there it's contested - eg some constitutional theorists and constitutional traditions take the view that its always open to constituent power to reconstitute the polity regardless of the existing constitutional rules). But for pastimes like RPGing, where the authority of the rules has no grounding beyond moment-to-moment social agreement to follow them, of course people can change them however they want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9001448, member: 42582"] I'm another poster in agreement with [USER=5142]@Aldarc[/USER], [USER=99817]@chaochou[/USER] and [USER=6925338]@soviet[/USER]. It seems obvious that people engaged in a rule-based pastime (like RPGing) can, by express or implicit agreement, change the rules of that pastime. This does not mean that every rule-based pastime has, as one of its rules, an express or implicit permission (vested in one or more participants) to change its rules. There are some rules-systems that may require such a rule - eg constitutional orders (although even there it's contested - eg some constitutional theorists and constitutional traditions take the view that its always open to constituent power to reconstitute the polity regardless of the existing constitutional rules). But for pastimes like RPGing, where the authority of the rules has no grounding beyond moment-to-moment social agreement to follow them, of course people can change them however they want. [/QUOTE]

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