Goonhub
06-13-2021, 06:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-13-2021, 06:18 AM by phyvo. Edited 1 time in total.)
When I started playing I played for a long long time thinking that lizards/etc counted as human. Did it make direct logical sense? No. But it made it really easy to say things like "well skeletons count as human on this server, that's the rules, we don't do that xenophobic crap here". Even though I was wrong at the time saying that lizards counted as human was really easy to do and effective.
So I actually support just changing the wiki. Not everyone needs to look up the wiki in order to understand that mutant races get the same protections humans do. People in game who know the rules just need a really simple way to explain how we play, and mutant race = human works for that.
If that is truly unacceptable I think it's best to be as precise as possible in-game. That is, replace "human" with a term like "protected life forms" or "Nanotrasen-approved life" and add a law 4 to define that. Sapience is a nono because lings/werewolves are definitely sapient. "Employees" creates a different grey area, basically just shifting the "does this count?" problem from mutant races to not-really-employees like Tourists or Clowns. If we're going to remove a grey area in the game let's remove it and not create another one in the process. I know adding a law breaks the classic Asimov 3 laws but Asimov didn't have to deal with space cow people.
So I actually support just changing the wiki. Not everyone needs to look up the wiki in order to understand that mutant races get the same protections humans do. People in game who know the rules just need a really simple way to explain how we play, and mutant race = human works for that.
If that is truly unacceptable I think it's best to be as precise as possible in-game. That is, replace "human" with a term like "protected life forms" or "Nanotrasen-approved life" and add a law 4 to define that. Sapience is a nono because lings/werewolves are definitely sapient. "Employees" creates a different grey area, basically just shifting the "does this count?" problem from mutant races to not-really-employees like Tourists or Clowns. If we're going to remove a grey area in the game let's remove it and not create another one in the process. I know adding a law breaks the classic Asimov 3 laws but Asimov didn't have to deal with space cow people.