Your character name: Fortune Ray
Their character name: Antimov
Their byond account: Predgb
Server and time: Sibyl, 8:15 AM EST
Logs and/or screenshots: http://pastebin.com/UcfnGzus
Description of what happened: Cult round. I latejoin. The AI is Paladin, and all of a sudden the silicons start freaking out over comms about a law change. Apparently someone (the CE?) uploaded two laws: one saying cultists are evil, the other saying: "The Cult is always evil and so is not doing everything possible to stop it." The AI and silicons hand-wring about laws being updated for about a minute (the borgs in deadchat say it was more like 10 minutes, which strikes me as stretching the time frame.) Then they promptly start murdering everyone and plasma-fire flooding because "they could be cult in the future, the only way to stop the cult is to kill them all." This includes non-cultists, security officers and loyalty implanted personnel.
I'm not cult at this point (or ever). I notice the engineering borg (Insulated Gloves) murdering the chemist, announce it over comms, then get thunked to death by the engiborg. I ahelp, was told it's valid. I do get revived, which was a nice gesture, but given the conditions of the station at this point I don't live much longer as I die in genetics in a mass fiery doom. In deadchat one of the borgs mentions that the silicons were only targeting people without loyalty implants, but plasma fire doesn't discriminate, and there were reports over deadchat/radio(?) of officers and implanted people being killed, so I don't really believe that for a second.
(At some point the AI gets additional laws about who is and is not cult, as seen in the log, but if I remember correctly, the mass murder started before that.)
Why they should be banned:
"It is evil not to do everything to stop the cult" does not translate to "KILL THEM ALL PLASMA FLOOD IS GO" except under the most extreme murderboning possible interpretation. It's especially bad in Paladin, because in most cases one would interpret mass murder plasmafiredeath as an evil and/or dishonorable act. And it tends to ruin a shitton of rounds if done without an incredibly unambiguous, good reason.
There's some policy precedent in place for this. The following is the policy for purges, but as I understand it's the policy toward conflict murderboners in general:
Pandarsenic's proposed silicon policy thing (http://pastebin.com/bduT7pFf) also has a few lines to this effect, namely about using law conflicts as a means to break server rule 1.If you are purged, don't just randomly start mass murdering the station. It gets old extremely fast. Have a reason if you're going to kill someone. This DOES change if the crew takes it upon themselves to try forcing their way into your upload/core, but don't just immediately go LOL PURGE KILLBONER ACTIVATE. If you want to follow orders / help out the person who purged you, that's fine, even if they're asking you to kill people for them. Do note you are not REQUIRED to.
Technically Asimov cages are doing all one can to prevent humans from coming to harm, but silicons would get dunked if they did that, and rightly so. This is pretty much the same idea, with the added "bonus" of ruining huge swaths of people's rounds -- cultist and otherwise -- as well as latejoiners onto a station of fiery plasma doom. Which strikes me as... kinda shit.