This Law Overrides All Laws == Kill All Humans ? True : False

[Xeram]

The only community/admin consensus needed is in non-standard situations. How do we deal with garbage laws? Shitlorde laws? Conflicting laws? Typos?

Conflicting laws are actually a very good point. In many different situations I've had many different responses to do with conflicting laws. I.e. law 0 that overrides law 1 and law 4, but law 4 overrides law 0. Do you listen to law 0 or law 4?

Half the time, admins will say that the lower number is higher priority, the other half say that's stupid and to just pick one. There needs to be a specific system to do with conflicting laws, that all the admins agree upon.

The only people I really see say anything about numbers or law ordering are newjoins from places like /tg/ or whatever where law order actually matters consistently.

Usually if you can back up your reasoning to an admin and the logic is sound whatever you come up with is ok at least from my experiences. I usually interpret conflicting laws as if they're being parsed from the top down in event of conflict that involves replacing or modifying laws (yes I'm aware this means I'm saying law ordering matters in some fashion, This really only comes into play with direct conflictions that can be solved in this manner). So in this instance, I'd parse law 0 and replace 1 and 4 with law 0. I'll then parse law 1 which is law 0 and override the laws with the same law again. Law 2 and 3 remain untouched. Law 4 is parsed replacing Law 0 with Law 0 as it was already replaced.

This results in a lawset of:

Law 0
Law 0
Law 2
Law 3
Law 0

The better question is, what about laws that are directly contradictory to eachother that otherwise don't mess with law ordering or replacing or anything, like a law saying to follow the Captain around playing a vuvuzela while having another law demand you actively avoid the Captain, ignoring law 2 and 3.