Detail: http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=3113 ============================== CFJ 3113 ============================== Agora wishes to counteract a decision if and only if the decision would substantially violate a person's rights as defined by Rule 101 ======================================================================== Caller: Tanner L. Swett Judge: G. Judgement: FALSE ======================================================================== History: Called by Tanner L. Swett: 23 Oct 2011 18:13:59 GMT Assigned to Walker: 23 Oct 2011 19:51:32 GMT Walker recused: 06 Nov 2011 18:10:27 GMT Assigned to scshunt: 06 Nov 2011 18:12:10 GMT scshunt recused: 18 Nov 2011 23:32:38 GMT Assigned to G.: 18 Nov 2011 23:32:38 GMT Judged FALSE by G.: 21 Nov 2011 16:54:54 GMT ======================================================================== Caller's Arguments: it is clearly important to know whether or not Agora wishes to counteract a decision, because this can cause it to have no effect. However, the rules give no way (that I am aware of) to tell whether or not Agora wishes to counteract a decision. Thus, it may be prudent to establish some precedent. ======================================================================== Judge G.'s Arguments: "Wish" has two related meanings: (1) "to have a desire for", and (2) "to express a wish for, to give form to a wish". It is best to interpret "wishes" in R2351 as the latter. This is well within common usage; facing the fairy tale genie, the hero may want and desire many things, but it's only the words that are directly and specifically invoked that are taken to be the hero's "wish". Until Agora explicitly and directly makes an announcement of a wish using mechanisms provided for Agora doing so, no wish exists. When one is made, we, like the genie, we will obliged to make most narrow and twisted legal interpretation of it, hopefully teaching Agora, along with its readers, a good lesson in the process. Wishes are dangerous. Fortunately, none of Agora's wishes have been legally expressed, so none have been made. FALSE. ========================================================================