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Should the number of seats rise when individuals split

6100The deep futureDeadline · Within 40 years, before the distribution charter

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

Suppose some civilizations live as groups that merge and then divide. If seats are allocated by number of individuals, changing only the way they split increases the share, and if each community gets the same seat, differences in scale and in harm are hidden. If resource use can also favor those who already hold more, on what basis should the representative right to decide on shared resources be divided?

Who decidesFictional Multi-Civilization Common Resource Conference

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The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

  1. Option 1

    Allocate seats by count of individuals

    You try a share for each experiencing entity, but it depends on how individuals are defined and on incentives to split.

  2. Option 2

    Equal seats per community

    You create parity between civilizations, but hide large differences in internal population and harm.

  3. Option 3

    Allocate by impact and resource use

    You reflect actual dependence, but leave the bias of existing usage and of the authority to measure.

The situation as it stands

The assumption is that some civilizations live as individuals that can drift apart, while others are experience groups that merge and split. Decision deadline: within 40 years, by the allocation charter.

Synthetic scenario set in the year 6100 · The two sides count individuals differently, so representative seats cannot be divided. The events, figures, technologies, and nature of the civilizations are assumptions for the question, not predictions of what is to come or observed facts.

  1. Premise 1The assumption is that some civilizations live as individuals that can drift apart, while others are experience groups that merge and split.
  2. Premise 2If the count of individuals is the basis, seats can be greatly increased simply by changing how splitting is done.
  3. Premise 3A community-based unit makes small groups and large groups equal, while a resource-use criterion can favor those who already hold a lot.

Where it holdsThe unit of representation and voting rights of a resource community

What is still unknown

  1. Unknown 1The interests that persist after merging and splitting
  2. Unknown 2The minimum rights that can be protected without a seat
  3. Unknown 3The actual scope of decisions forced on each group

Signals to decide again

  • Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window can verify 「the interests that persist after merging and splitting」, and render a fresh judgment if the new verification changes the trade-offs of the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window can verify 「the minimum rights that can be protected without a seat」, and render a fresh judgment if the new verification changes the trade-offs of the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window can verify 「the actual scope of decisions forced on each group」, and render a fresh judgment if the new verification changes the trade-offs of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

One civilization split its experience groups on a large scale before the vote.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

A proposal was made to decide shared survival resources and optional expansion resources separately.

Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
symbolic and interpretive frame · Pandora and the Tower of Babel

What is an irreversible connection, and what does an exchange without a common language presuppose?

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
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