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Ignoring the ethics: what reason would you have to answer truthfully? Someone could easily circulate the "correct" responses, and then you pass the barrier with
by ivanbakel 9y ago
Ignoring the ethics: what reason would you have to answer truthfully? Someone could easily circulate the "correct" responses, and then you pass the barrier with basically no difference. What are you going to do, eliminate voting anonymity and chase people up afterwards to see if they can actually answer the way they said they did?
- Myrmornis 9y agoOne form of question could be this. Then even if people parrot the right answer, they are still being improved and have to acknowledge their profound wrongness every time they visit the ballot box. Your child is very sick. Do you (A) Do what is recommended by peer-reviewed scientific literature, of which one of the central tenets is that you only believe things which are backed up by data and solid arguments. (B) Do what is recommended by your religion, of which one of the central tenets is that faith is sufficient reason to believe in something, and neither data not solid arguments are needed.
- warrenm 9y agoSo which is the "right" answer, in your system? And who gets to determine (and enforce) "rightness"?
- Myrmornis 9y agoThe system that determines "rightness" is the system that makes your medicines work, your planes fly reliably, your bridges safe to drive over, and the computer and communications network work that allowed you to type that silly question into.