[blml] 40B3, etc.²

[Eric Landau]

On Mar 19, 2008, at 11:10 PM, Robert Frick wrote:

> Law 27B1(b) seems to allow wickedly effective systems such as  
> suggested by
> Stepanie. That needs to be explored.
>
> However, any system that makes the insufficient bid obviously  
> desirable is
> decapitated by 72B1, which is that you can't have known at the time  
> of the
> infraction that it might harm the opponents.

It is a recognized principle of jurisprudence that if X is a crime,  
then conspiring to do X is also a crime.  So I would have no problem  
with prohibiting such "wickedly effective systems" on the grounds  
that they constitute a de facto illegal "conspiracy to violate L72B1".

But this isn't needed, as the use of any method that operates only  
after an IB constitutes "assistance gained through the infraction"  
perforce, guaranteeing that if it succeeds the resulting gain will be  
adjusted away.


Eric Landau
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