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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9480303" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Why? How?You have said that this is a thing. Why is it a thing? Why is it that person A being able to do thing X means person B cannot do thing X?Again, you keep saying THAT this is true, but you have not said WHY it is true.What is it about the existence of the rule which makes it so you cannot do something a different way?The rule is a formal, explicit way things DO work. Why is it you can't...also do things in another way, that hasn't be pre-defined?Why not?But it's not just "an opinion." It is a claim, and a rebuttal. It rebuts the claim that an absence of rules ensures that the player is able to do the things they want to do. In the genuine absence of rules, where absolutely everything becomes a topic of negotiation...and where one and only one party has all the bargaining power...you're gonna run into a lot of situations where--to use your own phrase--you will have no idea whatsoever how to pursue your goals, or even whether those goals can be pursued at all. That's one of the major functions of rules, to provide an identified path forward.And none of this has anything to do with whether a road from Rome to Paris means that you can't also get to Paris without taking that road. Maybe you decide to go to Venice first, and then to Paris. Or maybe you just hoof it across the Alps because you're a crazy person. Or maybe you take a ship, or you fly. Why does having a road from Rome to Paris mean that nobody is ever allowed to reach Paris any other way?</blockquote>

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