Jayson_Virissimo comments on EY "Politics is the Mind Killer" sighting at Washington Examiner and Reason.com - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 28 September 2012 12:02:41PM 1 point [-]

Or living without using decision procedures at all, which is quite feasible in small groups under ~150 people. There will always be disagreement about "rights" and the like, but small groups can more easily hash out such disagreements through informal ethics (i.e. managed de-escalation of conflict). Political conflict persay only seems to arise in larger groups.

Individuals (and in some cases, families) deciding for themselves what to do is a special case of a "unanimous decision procedure".