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Maybe if the winning side's values mandated their own deaths. But then it would be pointless for the sysop to respond to their threat of suicide to begin with, so I don't know. I'm not sure if there's something you're getting at that I'm not seeing.
"I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there... any more than there is for you. Malcolm... I'm a monster.What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done. "
I'm thinking if you do the matchup's correctly you only wind up with one such person at the end, whom all the others secretly precommit to killing.
...maybe this shouldn't be discussed publicly.
I don't think the system works in the first place without a monopoly on lethal force. You could work within the system by "voting" for his death, but then his friends (if any) get a chance to join in the vote, and their friends, til you pretty much have a new war going. (That's another flaw in the system I could have mentioned.)