Jamal Awil

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Free speech does not alter the game's core character. [causal]

So the introduction of uninhibited speech may not greatly alter the character of the game, even though the particular outcome is different. The dependence of the two players on conveying their intentions to each other and perceiving the intentions of each other, of behaving in predictable patterns and acquiescing in rules or limits, is much the same as before.

Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, loc. 249