[EM] ethics of wv vs m

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

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What if someone suggested disregarding the result of a public
vote, on behalf of the people who voted against the public
decision? You say that doesn't make a whole lot of sense? I agree.
Someone suggesting that would be laughed off the stage.

What does make sense is _keeping_ the result of a public vote,
which we do because of the people who voted for it.

If it's necessary to drop a defeat, keep the ones that have more
support. In other words, drop the one with least support.

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When you don't drop a pairwise defeat, that doesn't constitute
tinkering with the results. It isn't a modification of the public's
expressed choices. It doesn't overrule anyone. It doesn't do
anything to the people's choices. It certainly doesn't overrule
the people who voted against that pair-defeat; they were duly
counted. They lost. They were overruled by the pro-defeat voters
who outnumbered them.

Of course what _is_ a tampering, a tinkering, and an overruling
of the public's expressed collective opinion is when we _do_
drop a pairwise defeat. And when we drop that pairwise defeat,
we _are_ overruling that more numerous group of people,
greater number who wanted that defeat.

So let's have a good reason for which defeat we drop. Let's
minimize the number of people whom we overrule, if we have to
disregard an expressed opinion of the voters.

Mike Ossipoff


















































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