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[Adam Beneschan]

Eric wrote:
 
> At 08:39 PM 7/19/06, Todd wrote:
> 
> >Adam Beneschan wrote:
> >>So if "all systems allowed" tourneys exist on BBO, why is
> >>anyone who wants to play in that sort of tournament complaining about
> >>the ACBL or any other SO not holding tourneys like that?
> >
> >         Because people frequently form opinions from incomplete or 
> > even incorrect information.  The ACBL asserts a position that certain 
> > systems are not allowed at its tournaments because they are 
> > destructive.  For some people that may be sufficient evidence of truth.
> 
> Especially since the ACBL uses "destructive system" the way the 
> American administration uses "national security matter"

and the Supreme Court uses "unconstitutional" [off topic, but if we're
going to start throwing political barbs in here I can certainly insert
my own]

> , as an 
> undefined, essentially meaningless designation that in reality boils 
> down to nothing more than a subjective decision by some 
> decision-maker(s) that can be applied to whatever they choose without 
> any need for any kind of objective justification.

Well, first of all, I should point out that although Todd posted as if
he were responding to me, he seemed to be responding to some other
post, perhaps, because his point had nothing whatsoever to do with
mine.  So my text above probably doesn't belong here (not that I made
any effort to remove it).

But I also wanted to ask: You seem to be making an assertion that the
ACBL bans whatever systems it feels like and just sticks a
"destructive" label on it to try to justify their actions.  You're not
merely asserting that they have the potential to do this, you're
asserting that they actually do.

So no doubt you can provide some examples of them doing this?

(By the way, I think "destructive" does have a meaning, although it's
not a precise formulaic meaning that you can apply objectively to some
bidding system.  But there's a huge gray area between words that have
a precise objective meaning and words that have no meaning at all.)

                                -- Adam