sologirlcamper

There's also the much stronger Hylland's theorem, which shows that any cardinal system of voting, one where votes also show how much they prefer one candidate to another, must either encourage strategic voting, or be a randomized dictatorship.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24064783_Strategy-p...

"This paper analyses strategy-proof mechanisms or decision schemes which map profiles of cardinal utility functions to lotteries over a finite set of outcomes. We provide a new proof of Hylland’s theorem which shows that the only strategy-proof cardinal decision scheme satisfying a weak unanimity property is the random dictatorship. Our proof technique assumes a framework where individuals can discern utility differences only if the difference is at least some fixed number which we call the grid size. We also prove a limit random dictatorship result which shows that any sequence of strategy-proof and unanimous decision schemes defined on a sequence of decreasing grid sizes approaching zero must converge to a random dictatorship."

Hoping not to flame or anything, but personally the point of my religion (orthodoxy) is to be correct and to provide an understanding of reality. Morality and coordination stem from that for sure, but they aden't the purpose per se.

> You don’t just get to say “hey I’m going to not vaccinate my kids for polio because I don’t feel like it”

Plenty of people do this, it's pretty easy to get an exemption for most things like that. My parents did it just fine.

This seems like such a strange thing to say. Why does your wife find having no connection to civilisation "downright alarming"? If women are supposed to find outdoor solitude frightening or something, nobody's told me! I'm hoping this doesn't come across as angry, it just feels like a bizarre thing to read.