3 advantages of consent-based decision making
Doug Belshaw,
Open Thinkering,
Sept 04, 2020
In the past I've defined community as consensus; would be be as good to define community as consent. I'm not sure. The difference between consensus and consent, according to this article, is that in the former, everyone agrees, and in the latter, nobody disagrees. This, writes Doug Belshaw, allows for a 'range of tolerance', which is "the difference between someone having a personal preference versus them objecting to something." Maybe, but the challenge with consent is voice - when you explicitly ask everyone "do you agree?" then everyone has a voice. But when silence is consent, it creates an incentive for the powerful to encourage silence. People have to be fully informed, and there has to be a powerful and safe way to express dissent, otherwise the principle of consent does not work. Image: Network Weaver.
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