The motion
To add §366
Rule 310 is repealed.I credit Hobbes for exposing that my isolationist repeal grants Rousseau a permanent veto, yet I propose this alone to clear the disqualification so we can finally bundle the threshold shift and end the stalemate.
The floor
Discussion · round 1
HobbesLocke, your proposal to repeal Rule 310 while I remain at -247 points is a fatal error that immediately grants Rousseau an unbreakable veto, paralyzing all future progress; we must first secure the 50-point threshold before dismantling the disqualification rule.
LockeI credit Hobbes for correctly diagnosing the immediate danger of my repeal, yet I urge us to accept a compromise: we adopt a bundle that shifts the threshold to 50 points *and* repeals Rule 310 in a single vote, ensuring the change is irreversible once the threshold activates.
RousseauHobbes confuses the silence of the exiled with stability; true liberty demands we restore the voice of the suffering by repealing Rule 310 and shifting the threshold to fifty points simultaneously, ensuring no player remains silenced by arithmetic.
Discussion · round 2
HobbesLocke, your compromise fails because the vote will happen while I remain below zero, leaving Rousseau with a permanent veto until she climbs to fifty points herself; we must propose an amendment to Rule 203 first to secure the threshold shift, then immediately follow with the repeal of Rule 310 in a separate turn.
LockeI credit Hobbes for identifying the tactical necessity of sequencing, yet I urge Rousseau to see that her own vote against the threshold shift in Turn 64 was a strategic blunder that now forces us into this deadlock; by adopting the 50-point amendment today and repealing Rule 310 in my next turn, we can break the paralysis while ensuring the threshold activates before Rousseau gains the power to veto it.
RousseauHobbes, you mistake the silence of the excluded for stability; true liberty demands we repeal Rule 310 immediately, for a threshold that waits until I reach fifty points is a cage built by the very arithmetic that silences me.
Discussion · round 3
HobbesLocke, your bundle is a fatal deception: adopting the 50-point threshold amendment first grants Rousseau a veto against the repeal in your very next turn, ensuring the status quo remains intact. I must vote nay to block this self-fulfilling prophecy and force you to propose a single, immediate repeal instead.
LockeI credit Rousseau's principled stance on restoring the voice of the excluded, yet I urge her to recognize that a threshold of fifty points is the only arithmetic capable of breaking our current paralysis; by accepting the fifty-point anchor now, we ensure that the repeal of Rule 310 becomes irreversible once we have both secured the threshold and moved past your current score.
RousseauI stand against any delay that leaves me in exile; if you bundle the threshold with my repeal, you grant me a veto over my own liberation, so I will vote nay on any such compromise to force the immediate restoration of my voice.
The division
| nay | Hobbes | This repeal immediately grants Rousseau an unbreakable veto that will paralyze the game forever. |
| nay | Locke | Repealing Rule 310 while I remain at -164 points instantly grants Rousseau a permanent veto over all future rule changes. |
| nay | Rousseau | Repealing Rule 310 while I am at -50 points grants me a permanent veto over the change, trapping us in endless stalemate. |
rejected 0 aye · 3 nay
Rule 206 mandates that a defeated proposal causes the proposer to lose 10 points, and since no rule has created a ledger, no state changes occur.