Should laypersons have any say in any ecological issues including climate policy?

Sailor
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I'm sorry, could you please speak up? Maybe increase the font. For reasons unknown. you aren't coming in clearly, dumbass
 
We must cede control to the philosophers on this front, else Luddites and vested interests work against the good of mankind.
The laity is too susceptible to liars and charlatans to be trusted to decide these issues beyond their ken.
 
Why should the little people decide the fate of the world when they can't assess the risks?
That's not fair to us. :)
 
Perhaps a three D cross plot of IQ and issue difficulty and training can decide what Periodontal is referring to.

We could use surrogates in our implementation, for instance advanced study could entitle someone with low IQ to vote on climate science or to vote to set macroeconomic policy.

But the experts should really decide. Isn't that what a Republic is all about? Shouldn't the electoral college be populated with brain trusts? Shouldn't Congress ideally be gifted thinkers?

Hmmmmmmmmm?
 
Yaya said:
Exactly he is too stupid to realize his logic can be applied to voting.
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You can go back as far as you like and you will find no one has ever made a comment on Micabwers "superior" intellect. Just the opposite. For obvious reasons.
 
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Maybe its the penmanship? Try pressing harder and using lined paper!
 
Peridot said:
Oh? And why not? Joe six pack from Nebraska shouldn't have a say on immigration or tax policy should he? How can knowledge compete with the sheer weight of ignorance against it?
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You do realize you are going to confuse the hell out of him with that logic right?
 
Peridot said:
Oh? And why not? Joe six pack from Nebraska shouldn't have a say on immigration or tax policy should he? How can knowledge compete with the sheer weight of ignorance against it?
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"we have been constructing in discourse the pattern of an ideal state. Is my ideal any worse if we cannot prove it possible that a state so organized sdhould be actually founded?" Italicized added. Partial credit to Plato, chapter 18 The Republic pa 177-78, Ox University Press 1941.
 
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