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Sure, that's true - for any one person. Now take a representative body with 100 members. You get, say, five extremists on the left and seven on the right. Th
by AnimalMuppet 1y ago
Sure, that's true - for any one person.
Now take a representative body with 100 members. You get, say, five extremists on the left and seven on the right. The other 88 members basically leave those 12 extremists on the margins, and the extremists become irrelevant.
Now, if extremists (total of all flavors) exceed 50% of your population, you're in trouble. But you were probably in trouble in a democracy, too...
- delichon 1y agoSo you endorse sortition for large bodies, but not for an executive or a small committee? What's a reasonable threshold?
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoI think that's right. The point of sortition is for the body to look (statistically) like the wider public. The smaller the number of people in the body, the more likely it is that they are not representative. I'm sure statisticians could give a better answer than I can about where the line should be. I think it is basically a statistical question. But for a one-person executive? No, probably not a good idea.