[ianleeclark]

> Run around and poll everyone on their feelings and make decisions based on anecdote points?

Democracy sounds pretty dope when you put it that way.

> You fail to present a better alternative

I just want people to treat human life with dignity. Chile 1973--we've seen what happens with your line of rationalization and commoditizing human lives.

[anm89]

Yeah, try enacting an infrastructure project at the implementation level via direct vote democracy. No evil quantifiable data needed.

I'm sure it will be "dope".

>I just want people to treat human life with dignity.

I want an airplane made of gold. Who cares what you want? You dislike the only practical method of achieving what you want and present no alternative so you'll get nothing.

[ianleeclark]

> Yeah, try enacting an infrastructure project at the implementation level via direct vote democracy. No evil quantifiable data needed.

It's almost like there are multiple methods of organizing democratic systems of governance and not all of them rely on direct democracy. Maybe, if we had some roughly representative system, wherein people elected people to represent their interests, then those elected officials would hold town-halls to hear their constituents complaints, worries, and get a general feel for their "feelings." That sure seems capable of addressing infrastructural needs.

> Who cares what you want?

I am generally pretty interested in that. Maybe in the above fictional system of governance we recently conjured, my elected official might even have some interest in what I want.

> You dislike the only practical method of achieving what you want

What do I even dislike again? I critiqued you defending monstrous humans for prioritizing dollar values above human lives. Is the Pinochet model really the only viable model in your opinion?

> I want an airplane made of gold

At this point, it seems you'd sooner have a solid gold helicopter.