Goonhub
07-30-2018, 10:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-30-2018, 10:53 PM by Zafhset. Edited 1 time in total.
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When making fun/gimmick laws that shouldn't result in widespread murder, there is very little need to "override all other laws". Negating law 1 is just asking for trouble unless your law is VERY SPECIFIC up to the minor details (which would still be up to different interpretation by each synthetic) and negating law 2 can very quickly result in station-wide lockdown.
If we take the first example of "Every crew member must be drunk at all times, do whatever it takes to ensure that they have all the alcohol they need." as something you wanted to achieve, you could have added something along the lines of "feeding or filling crew with alcohol no longer constitutes as harm and orders to cease alcohol spreading activities can be ignored" as a work around. This could still lead to fatal dosages, but it would be closer to what you wanted to achieve than outright murder.
If we take the first example of "Every crew member must be drunk at all times, do whatever it takes to ensure that they have all the alcohol they need." as something you wanted to achieve, you could have added something along the lines of "feeding or filling crew with alcohol no longer constitutes as harm and orders to cease alcohol spreading activities can be ignored" as a work around. This could still lead to fatal dosages, but it would be closer to what you wanted to achieve than outright murder.