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Re: [MUD-Dev] Declaration of the Rights of Avatars



Geoffrey A. MacDougall write:
>
>This is destined for failure - because rl governments do not have the
>power to control physical reality, metaphysics, and spiritulity in the
>stroke of a button.  So the administration of a vw is never going to be
>comparable to that of the rw - and any conclusions based upon this
>assumption are going to be inherently invalid.
>

Not really.   If a theory cannot explain both, it is simply a flawed theory.
I'd suggest that a theory of rights that states that "rights are endowed by 
a Creator(s)" is consistent across both the real world and virtual worlds, 
and is therefore a better theory.  ;-)

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