SHINAN'S PROFILE

(Rocks fall, everyone dies...)

author=bulmabriefs144
Yes, there is the whole pages and pages of books thing. But like I say for another thread I'm a firm believer in trial and error having designed games with feature creep and finding later the features didn't always work together. Even the most book-phobic citizen can be trusted to take a look at that pipe vote they refused, and say "well, I voted no because we don't want taxes but ummm now our pipes are kinda cracked and spewing water all over my lawn. Perhaps it's time to write to the governor and ask whether he could redo the vote." Sometimes the best experience is direct experience. After all, how did those books get written? Someone screwed up.

So... When people get hurt it's time to fix things. At a cost much higher than it would have been to prevent the hurt from happening in the first time. IF enough people are affected.

This sounds incredibly sustainable.

I feel like these thought experiments aren't really thought through at all. And some of them have pretty awful implications. For example there was this bit in an earlier post:

As to something about 1 km away from a bus stop.

A healthy person can walk 6 km per hour, or make it there in 10 minutes. If you want to assert your right to vote, I think you can get off your ass and walk maybe five or ten blocks.

The implication being that only healthy people should be allowed to vote.

Not to mention that I think your elections are on weekdays, which means a twenty minute walk back and forth to a bus stop plus the bus ride (and the waiting for said bus possibly involved), all of which needs to happen during a thirty minute lunch break from work.

I like representative democracy because it means I don't have to do the work, the person I voted for has to go through books worth of documents to get proper insight into what is happening.

Most of my family has been in local elections, none of them got voted in but most of them got a seat at a side-comittee thingie. Which meant that aside from their regular job they also regularly had to go through a bunch of documents in order to pass various proposals over to the city council.

The problem with direct democracy is that everyone would technically have to go through all of these bunches of documents and study them closely and whatnot, which, obviously, they wouldn't do.

Mobs are idiots for a reason, if one or two of a mob of fifty have knowledge about a subject and the rest just listen to whatever someone says. The 48 who have no idea what they're talking about are going to get to decide.

Of course this is idealist thinking. I like realpolitik and "career politicians" because I like to think that they at least should know something. Of course, there's always the occasional celebrity candidate or whatever who might not know shit. And of course there's loads of agendas to push on all sides. But overall I know the people I've elected to parliament or to city council or to Europe know a hell of a lot more about the particulars of every issue than I do. And I wouldn't call myself terribly uninformed.


TLDR Direct democracy is a pretty awful idea.

So two people have gone "Kung Fury hurr hurr hurr", but no one has linked https://store.steampowered.com/app/373180/Kung_Fury_Street_Rage/ yet!

I don't see any Rocket League on that list.