tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post6667084333667696799..comments2024-03-28T19:56:42.305-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: A reason why voting methods are compromisesAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-49743259264350150562012-01-27T07:16:35.438-06:002012-01-27T07:16:35.438-06:00Your last sentence is spot-on.
It raises the sugg...Your last sentence is spot-on.<br /><br />It raises the suggestion that the best (feasible) political arrangements in a high-trust society might be quite different from those in a low-trust society. And yet prominent political philosophies don't incorporate this idea. E.g. in Rawls' Original Position you don't know how much people trust each other in any given set of institutions, and that might be a crucial piece of information in deciding whether you want to incarnate that set of institutions.Heath Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535886546816778688noreply@blogger.com