About democracy and other ideas for government

[mai]

ArnoldRimmer said:

mai said:

But if you really want to talk about it, here's my idea. Every citizen has a point table and earns points for various things like social, business activity or anything else this given society considers "good", for "bad" things like criminal activity you receive penalty. In other words. You have kids? Here's you 10 points per kid. You own an enterprise and create jobs? Here's your 1 point per every $10 you make, etc. The more points you get, the more valuable citizen you are, the more your vote will weight compared to others. It's census, but more flexible than straightforward property qualification. I do not claim it will work or it's any good though :D

I feel a certain sympathy for the general idea of different people's votes having different weights.

But I see a lot of potential for abuse in your concrete suggestion. First of all, your suggestion really comes down to the idea of measuring every citizen's "value", which definitely doesn't fit with modern humanistic ideals. And even if you ignore that, it's impossible to think of really fair and reasonable measurements.

Not sure how it contradicts humanistic ideals, though given how broad the definition of humanism could be -- well, it might contradicts smth somewhere. But I do not insist the idea is good, I know it'll be abused and eventually useless, and I know it won't be accepted (I addressed that in last paragraph of my original post) -- the latter should be fixed first, i.e. said "humanistic ideals", before moving further and fixing political system.

P.S. Measurements don't need to be fair and reasonable, there just need to be any kind of measurements majority more or less agrees on (f*ck minorities). I dunno, how about ten commandements for starters?