thread: 2005-03-11 : Love, Friendship, Romance, Sex
On 2005-03-14, TonyLB wrote:
It's not an untenable dream. We've heard this sort of pattern before.
"It only happens in freeform" means that nobody has yet developed a working ruleset to encourage it, not that such rulesets are impossible.
This is not the first challenge I've seen hit this barrier. Social interactions used to be unapproachable by the rules-technology of the time. Then moral quandaries were unapproachable.
But the rules get better, we all get better at designing, and suddenly it's obvious that the structure of rules will influence how people address moral conflicts. If we work at it, soon it will be obvious that the structure of rules will influence how people address romantic threads.
