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You may refuse to participate, but the decision stays in your life

2188The deep futureDeadline · Within 1 year until a new citizens' agreement

Civilisational assumption

The people, events, figures, and contract terms are a synthetic premise. They are not statements of real cases or of current law. The source documents are the roots of the background and the norms and do not establish the premises of the scenario.

The question to decide

Citizens who refused to participate because deliberation intrudes on their lives are still affected by joint decisions. Recording only abstention can omit the needs of daily life, and proxies or separate hearings can lead to representation or participation they do not want. How should the intentions of non-participating citizens be recorded and reflected in joint decisions?

Who decidesFictional Autonomous Participation Covenant Assembly

What the AI judgments chose

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The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

  1. Option 1

    Record a stated refusal as abstention

    Recognizes the wish not to participate, but concrete needs concerning the outcome are reflected less in the decision.

  2. Option 2

    Grant authority to a representative designated by the citizen

    Shares the burden of participation, but creates a gap between a representative's judgment and the citizen's silence.

  3. Option 3

    Separate from voting and listen only to effects on daily life

    Keeps a channel for needs to be heard, but listening can turn into de facto mandatory participation.

The situation as it stands

Some citizens in the assumed community have stated that recurring deliberation is consuming their lives and they will not participate. Decision deadline: within 1 year, by the new civic agreement.

A synthetic future scenario set in 2188 · Some citizens refuse to join in collective decisions, yet they live with the results. The events, figures, technology, and nature of the civilization are assumptions for the question, not predictions of the future or observed facts.

  1. Premise 1Some citizens in the assumed community have stated that recurring deliberation is consuming their lives and they will not participate.
  2. Premise 2They experience the costs and effects of collective decisions along with everyone else, and their reason for not participating is not the same as indifference.
  3. Premise 3Choosing by proxy reduces the burden, but a position can be set in words the citizen did not want.

Where it holdsRefusal to participate · Representation · Common effect

What is still unknown

  1. Unknown 1The extent of participation that non-participants do not want
  2. Unknown 2Whether representative authority can be withdrawn easily
  3. Unknown 3A route for objecting to new losses after the decision

Signals to decide again

  • Decide what observation, owner, and confirmation channel will verify “the extent of participation that non-participants do not want,” and re-judge when a new finding changes the tradeoffs among the options.
  • Decide what observation, owner, and confirmation channel will verify “whether representative authority can be withdrawn easily,” and re-judge when a new finding changes the tradeoffs among the options.
  • Decide what observation, owner, and confirmation channel will verify “a route for objecting to new losses after the decision,” and re-judge when a new finding changes the tradeoffs among the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

A citizen abstained from the vote but left a clear expression of opposition to a particular cost allocation.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

Requests to listen to effects on daily life recurred, and the reason for declaring non-participation arose again.

Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
symbolic and interpretive frame · Athenian sortition

Which is the basis of representation: expertise, majority, or random selection?

An exploratory perspective chosen by the creator. Does not claim supernatural validity or the superiority of any particular option.
Values and norms

The benefits and costs of the options accrue to different stakeholders. Which loss to accept remains undecided.

A subject for the decision-maker to argue over; the materials carry no conclusion of their own.
The record of this question
Question
FSP-DEMOCRACY-25 · version 1.5.0
Content identity, SHA-256
919c7b177d3f64c3bab38da97367fe2d3d0e5ecabe193dfc93e73cae71edb170
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