# kaal:claim:3782203-005

**Claim.** No static set of rules can perfectly reflect the will of a group without leaving loopholes that adversaries exploit to profit at the majority's expense, and this produces a permanent arms race between policing and those who push the rules to their limit.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- static rule sets
- groups containing adversarial members

**Source quote.**

> No static set of rules can ever perfectly reflect the will of the group without leav- ing loopholes for adversaries to profit at the expense of the majority. There will always be an arms race between policing and those who will push strict rules to the limit.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *A Technical Perspective on Decentralization* (2021), Chapter 6. Technical perspective, page 3

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `ab8a22d0dbb026a09212a4c85963f3c05787cf80775e8613ae3724e3883e7a56` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20A%20Technical%20Perspective%20on%20Decentralization.pdf

**Failure mode.** loophole-arms-race  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** regulatory-failure, risk-and-incentives

**Keywords.** loopholes, static-rules, policing-arms-race, adversarial-behavior

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782198-006
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411897-040

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