Responses to some of Forest's ideas

[Forest Simmons]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> 
> Consensus (100 percent agreement) is in utopia-land.
> 
> 

Demorep wrote that consensus in the form of 100 percent agreement is "in
utopia land."

I agree that 100 percent consensus is usually an unobtainable ideal,
although
it is also an absolute requirement in the case of some jury decisions.

But an ideal can serve as a standard of comparison.  Of two results,
the one closer to the ideal may be considered superior by that standard.

>From the point of view of maximum possible consent, the Approval Winner is
closer
to the 100 percent ideal than the 50 percent plus one winner when the two
are not the same.

The 50 percent plus one winner may be superior by some other standard. 

Forest