[Mid] Impaired judgement

The way I understand the rule being propounded, that no one can be taken
out unless they don't or can't follow the rules, is this:

We don't require our marshals to make medical judgements. The SCA is not
in the medicine business.

We also don't require our marshals to read minds, or assume
responsibility for the *possible* problems of various participants. This
is entirely consistent with the rules of the lists insistence on
participants taking responsibility (as someone has already pointed out).

The rule is, if someone is breaking the rules, the concrete written-down
rules, then the marshal must act.

This makes the job of being marshal one that is within the range of an
actual human being without god-like powers.

I assume that this phraseology results in part from liability concerns.
People are constantly complaining that our society (small s) requires us
to take too much responsibility for adults who are knowingly taking part
in various dangerous activities. This rule should be applauded by such
people.

When I first saw this rule I found it a bit of a shock, but it is there
to protect the poor sucker of a marshal (who could be me) from the
accusations that "You should have done SOMETHING" to stop that heart
attack, stroke, or seizure, when actually nothing could have been done.

Except, of course, by keeping all of us vulnerable, mortal human beings
out of the lists in the first place.

Finnvarr

-- 
"The most precious thing there is to lose is time...and it can happen 
that such honor is won in an hour which one might fail to find in a 
year or indeed ever."
							-- Geoffroi de 
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