I'll be the devil's advocate here. I find the loophole to not exist under the interpretation I view as correct. However, since clearly there is so much confusion about which interpretation is correct, the proposal ought to eliminate confusion to prevent raiders from potentially abusing a potential loophole.
Refuge Isle wrote:Fictional loophole. Holy shit how much does it need to be spelled out?
Your proposal is saying that a native population needs to specifically say they do
NOT want a liberation.
So without that, you
ASSUME CONSENT to break into their region if they don't
specifically tell you no beforehand. You already said you're willing to do this even in non-raid conditions, such as the population CTEing
What do you think that language means otherwise??
If that is what Lenly's proposal says, then that would be correct. And what Lenly has said does indeed suggest and support that that is what his proposal says. That is not what his proposal says. Hell, I don't even think it's what the proposal said when it contained "on their behalf".
Taking a stance against any Liberation resolution that the native population has not given their permission to be passed or passed by they themselves.
This can be broken down to "Against Liberations that natives don't permit". Let's remove the double negative. "(Only) For Liberations that natives permit". Meaning consent isn't assumed and the onus isn't on the natives to say no to a Liberation. This says Liberations need permission from natives.
Let's take a different approach. "Against Liberations that natives don't permit". Permit is, at its core, a yes signal. So my interpretation of "don't permit" is not "say no", it's "not say yes". The difference is important. The former means permission needs to be expressly denied by the natives to stop a Liberation, which may be impossible. The latter, that permission needs to be expressly granted by the natives to allow a Liberation. The latter is the ideal of everyone save seemingly Unibot or Lenly, but it's also what Lenly's proposal is saying.
The conclusion? Both sides need to calm down. I think Lenly is correct but Luca and GK are not necessarily incorrect, since their concern is more about the implications of such an up-to-interpretation clause. As I stated at the beginning of this post, it would be best if any competing interpretations were thoroughly eliminated, and the language is both clear and perhaps clarified to avoid any future trouble.