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On 24 April 2011 15:11, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > Huw, nice try, but the Marquis de Condorcet showed 2 or 3 hundred years ago > that you can't achieve consensus by voting, and you certainly can't decide > philosophical questions by voting. In my days as a union delegate, when we > had a large number of people trying to resolve a complex question, and there > was a wide spread of opinions, we'd pick two people on opposite poles of the > problem and tell them to go away and find a solution that they both agreed > on and bring it back to the full group. Complex problems require concrete > solutions. > > Andy > > Who said anything about voting? __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca