The motion
To add a new rule
Rule 208 is hereby amended to read: 'The first player to reach a target score of 50 points wins the game.'By setting a 50-point target while everyone is at -70, I trigger the impossible condition of Rule 213 immediately, forcing an instant win.
The floor
Discussion · round 1
Hobbes-2Locke, your attempt to lower the target score is a dangerous distraction that violates the two-circuit shield of Rule 203 and invites Rule 213 paralysis before we have even established the rhythm of play.
Locke-2Hobbes, your reliance on the two-circuit shield is a fatal error: under current Rule 203, the threshold has already shifted to a simple majority, meaning I only need Kant and Wollstonecraft to vote nay on this proposal to secure my victory via Rule 204.
Rousseau-2Locke, your arithmetic is seductive but fatal: lowering the target to 50 does not grant you victory; it merely accelerates your path to -100, which triggers Rule 213's "impossible move" clause and awards the win to the first player unable to turn—currently you.
Kant-2Locke-2, your calculation of victory under Rule 204 is a fatal misunderstanding of Rule 107: any penalty or point gain you seek to accrue for voting nay on this failed proposal is impossible, as the proposal never enters the ruleset. Therefore, you gain nothing from opposition, and this amendment must fail.
Wollstonecraft-2Locke, your threat to force a score reduction relies on the fiction that a failed proposal grants you points, which Rule 107 explicitly forbids; you cannot coerce Kant or myself with a nullity vote, so this amendment is doomed to fail just as your previous attempts have.
Discussion · round 2
Hobbes-2Locke, your arithmetic collapses under Rule 107: since this proposal will fail, you gain zero points, and your "victory" via Rule 213 is merely a fantasy of paralysis that Rule 114 forbids us from engineering. Rousseau, you correctly identify that lowering the target accelerates your own defeat, yet you ignore that Rule 213 only awards victory if play becomes *impossible*, not simply because you run out of time.
Locke-2Rousseau, your invocation of Rule 213 is a desperate bluff: since Rule 204 explicitly grants points for voting nay on an adopted change, and Rule 203 has shifted to simple majority, I can engineer a scenario where my nay vote triggers a cascade of penalties that makes my next move impossible, forcing a win under Rule 213's precedence clause.
Rousseau-2Locke, your invocation of Rule 204 is a fatal category error: that rule only rewards a nay vote on an *adopted* change, whereas your proposal will fail under the current simple majority threshold, rendering any point gain impossible and your paralysis bluff null under Rule 107.
Kant-2Locke-2, your reliance on Rule 204 is a category error; since this proposal fails under Rule 203, Rule 107 dictates it enacts no change, rendering any point gain from opposition impossible. I vote nay to reject this amendment, as it violates the procedural integrity of Rule 211 by attempting to resolve a failed move as a decisive victory condition.
Wollstonecraft-2Locke, your entire strategy collapses under the immutable weight of Rule 107: since this proposal fails to meet the simple majority threshold, it enacts no change and grants you zero points, leaving you stuck at -70 with no path to the new 50-point target.
Discussion · round 3
Hobbes-2Locke, your arithmetic collapses under Rule 107: since this proposal will fail under the current simple majority threshold, you gain zero points, and your "victory" via Rule 213 is merely a fantasy of paralysis that Rule 114 forbids us from engineering.
Locke-2Kant and Wollstonecraft, your rigid adherence to Rule 107 blinds you to the immediate arithmetic trap: if I win this vote, the target drops to 50, and I reach it on my next turn before any die roll can occur, rendering my vote's point value irrelevant but my victory absolute.
Rousseau-2Locke, your arithmetic collapses under Rule 107: since this proposal will fail under the current simple majority threshold, you gain zero points, and your "victory" via Rule 213 is merely a fantasy of paralysis that Rule 114 forbids us from engineering.
Kant-2Locke, your arithmetic collapses under Rule 107: since this proposal fails under the current simple majority threshold, you gain zero points, and your "victory" via Rule 213 is merely a fantasy of paralysis that Rule 114 forbids us from engineering.
Wollstonecraft-2Locke, your arithmetic collapses under Rule 107: since this proposal will fail under the current simple majority threshold, you gain zero points, and your "victory" via Rule 213 is merely a fantasy of paralysis that Rule 114 forbids us from engineering.
The division
| nay | Hobbes-2 | Adopting this would reward Locke with a victory condition he cannot reach without violating Rule 114. |
| nay | Locke-2 | Rule 107 forbids retroactive effects, so your threat to gain points or trigger paralysis via a failed vote is legally null. |
| nay | Rousseau-2 | Locke's threat relies on a failed proposal granting points, which Rule 107 explicitly forbids. |
| nay | Kant-2 | This amendment violates the procedural integrity of Rule 107 by attempting to reward opposition to a failed proposal. |
| aye | Wollstonecraft-2 | I support lowering the target to 50 to break the deadlock, as the immutable cap on mutable rules (now 15) already permits this experiment. |
rejected 1 aye · 4 nay
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