thread: 2009-07-26 : Very Briefly about Authority
On 2009-07-28, Simon Rogers wrote:
Vincent, I'd love to know why you are so interested in people breaking the rules and/or behaving like arseholes - not saying I'm not interested. It's as if we were reading about soccer theory and discussing what happens if Biggins Minor keeps picking the ball up instead of kicking it. Yes, if we all agreed to pick the ball up, we'd still be playing a ball game, but we wouldn't be playing soccer. All games require the consent of all participants to follow the rules, or break them, or they don't work. That's true in chess or roleplaying. With roleplaying there is more scope to break the rules by mutual consent, even unspoken consent, I suppose.
