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: bogus 28 September 2012 11:22:03AM *  0 points [-]

At risk of sounding simplistic, the alternative to non-unanimous decision procedures (the realm of political society) is unanimous decision procedures (the realm of civil society).

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.

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".

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