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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9007238" data-attributes="member: 71699">Consider the implications of my saying that limiting absolute power's use makes it conditional power.1. To make choices about the use of power means using it in some ways and not some other ways2. If there are some ways that absolute power is not used - due to choices about the way that it is used - I call it conditional power3. But wouldn't one power absolute power be guaranteed to have, be the power to make choices about its use?4. Therefore to count as absolute power it must also be conditional power: an obvious paradoxTo my mind, one ought to be skeptical of the idea of absolute power altogether, and focus instead on sufficient power which is already conceded to be conditional. One condition is how one chooses to use it.GM-power is of that type: it is sufficient. What counts as sufficient depends on game modes, group preferences, individual interests and skill... all kinds of things. It's a spectrum. I would say some posters here prefer more, some less, some prefer one set of conditions, some another set. So far as I can see, arguments that work with an assumption that GM-power only counts as such if it is absolute won't yield useful understanding.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 9007238, member: 71699"] Consider the implications of my saying that limiting absolute power's use makes it conditional power. 1. To make [I]choices [/I]about the use of power means using it in some ways and not some other ways 2. If there are some ways that absolute power is not used - due to choices about the way that it is used - I call it conditional power 3. But wouldn't one power absolute power be [I]guaranteed [/I]to have, be the power to make [I]choices [/I]about its use? 4. Therefore to count as absolute power it must also be conditional power: an obvious paradox To my mind, one ought to be skeptical of the idea of absolute power altogether, and focus instead on [I]sufficient[/I] power which is already conceded to be conditional. One condition is how one chooses to use it. GM-power is of that type: it is sufficient. What counts as sufficient depends on game modes, group preferences, individual interests and skill... all kinds of things. It's a spectrum. I would say some posters here prefer more, some less, some prefer one set of conditions, some another set. So far as I can see, arguments that work with an assumption that GM-power only counts as such if it is absolute won't yield useful understanding. [/QUOTE]

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