That's a bad argument to make, though, because nothing about Arrow's theorem says how much the criteria will be broken, only that they can't be fully satisfied.

That's a bad argument to make, though, because nothing about Arrow's theorem says how much the criteria will be broken, only that they can't be fully satisfied. Moreover, it doesn't apply to "range voting" methods (cardinal information-based voting systems). See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/5a9a1b/arrows_impossibility_theorem_implies_there_is_no/ https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/5a9a1b/arrows...