Re: adoptions and tribes

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From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 03:42:22 GMT

Steve Lieb replieth to me:
> > The presidential
> >thang is an ad hoc special case requirement, it doesn't correspond to
> >any general principle, much less a distinguished class of 'citizen',
> >so far as I'm aware.

> Japan. China. Korea. Iran. Of the 4, 3 you can't even BECOME a citizen
> without special dispensation, much less hold the highest level of power
> once you would be a citizen.

That's getting to be a _very_ different sort of instance! Your argument was "adopted foreigners can't hold office"; this is a very distinct proposition from "foreigners can't become citizens". Don't you also find it's a bit of a stretch to go from "A naturalised citizen of Japan can't become Prime Minister" (if I understand your example correctly) to "a Orlanthi adoptee can't become a member of the clan ring? Slightly vast difference in scale and scope.

Slan,
Alex.