Re: [WDDM] Unequal voting rights?

["Mark Antell, editor CitizenPowerMagazine.net" <citizenp(at)citizenpowermagazine.net>]

My vote goes for equality under law.  Special rights for some, means
less rights for others.  I don't want to be in the business of making
those decisions.
Mark Antell
Editor, CitizenPowerMagazine.net


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 M. Kolar wrote:

> Pras Anand wrote (November 15, 2006)
>
> > The more community contributions someone has generated - the more
> > right they gain on votin on increasingly complex issues. I am
> > developing a
>
>
> Even after all his explanations, I still do not like at all the above
> principle, that Pras wants to build into his Social Computer (SC)
> platform. Pras believes that his SC has the potential to have a big
> societal impact, so I think we all have here a good opportunity to
> matter somewhat - to try to influence the principles built into the
> SC. It would be interesting to know what others think specifically
> about the above point.
>
> I do not like at all the idea of giving as a reward more voting rights
> to those who make more community contributions. I am not against
> rewarding people in some reasonable way for their larger
> contributions, but not by giving them more voting rights, especially
> not in a vote on what they propose.
> It is true that people are not equal, but they should have equal
> opportunities in everything. That means also in voting, everybody
> should have an equal voice in matters that directly concern her or him.
> It doesn't matter whose brilliant idea they are voting on. If the
> consequences of implementing this idea affect them, they should have
> an equal voting right on this idea.
>
> Unless the SC adheres to this principle, it cannot be democratic.
>
> If people (children) are educated toward democracy and social
> responsibility, their greatest reward for coming up with a brilliant
> idea that helps the whole community could be the feeling that they
> made a significant contribution and the gratitude of others.
> If SC is supposed to educate people toward democracy, it should
> strengthen this alternative reward system.
> I do not think it is responsible to stress competition in SC. It
> should better stress cooperation.
>
> I suggest (again), that the WDDM may be somewhat useful (even without
> a formal organization) if we try to arrive by consent at common
> positions on various relevant issues and post them on the site as our
> recommendation.
>
> The above issue (rewards for greater contribution to the community)
> could be one such issue.
>
> Mirek