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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 384589" data-attributes="member: 649">It's not about rulesYour initial question asked if there were "any rules prob[l]em<s> with this," but you asked the wrong question.</s><s></s><s>It's not a matter of rules, it's a matter of being a good sportsman/gamesman. Let me give you some examples.</s><s></s><s>In Monopoly is there a rule that says you can't get up from the table in the middle of your turn and not come back for 3 days? No, there's no rule about how long each player has to take his/her turn. Is there a rule that says you can't pour water on the board, moving all the pieces around and making it difficult to figure out where to put them back? No, there's no rule about pouring water on the board. Is there a rule about turning up the heat in the room so that it becomes so uncomfortable that other people have a hard time thinking clearly? Nope, again, no rule about the temperature in the room.</s><s></s><s>Yet every single one of those is a meta-rule, a simple socially-accepted "rule" of being a good sport and playing the game fairly. It's automatically assumed that these meta-rules exist, and that the people playing the game will simply "know" when they are being broken. No one bothers to put these "good sportsmanship" rules in the game because they would take thousands of pages and still not cover everything.</s><s></s><s>Your proposal is a perfect example of poor sportsmanship. Can you do it? Sure, and you can pour water on the Monopoly board, too. Does that make it right? No.</s></blockquote>

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