Nope . My butt is fine but it ' s nice to know you are thinking about it <| sep |> Yes jeff deserves water in thanksgiving <| sep |> Yes I ' m fucking sure ! This isn ' t a oh it ' s Tuesday , I guess I ' ll be trans now ! thing ! I have been internally wrestling with this for many , many years ! Do you even understand how sure I must have been to tell you ? . sorry , I imagine that was also going through your head , just like it was mine . 😊 . Internet high five . I understand . <| sep |> How would a person outside of the grasp of the people know about the importance of issues to the peopleI did not say that they would be completely removed from society . They still exist in society but simply do not own material things and have very limited relationships , so I think they would still understand many issues . They would have to be constantly informed by outside sources which would be even more prone to corruption than our current systemOf course they would have to rely on some outside information but everyone does this . There is no way to know absolutely everything about everything . The key is being able to pick out the reliable information from the nonreliable . I fail to see how using evidenced based resources can be more corrupt than the current system . If someone asks 100 people if they should take out their girlfriendwife to sushi or a steakhouse and they all answer , you could easily conclude that most americans care where the hell that guy takes his wife out to eat despite that not being the caseI don ' t really see your point here . Are you saying that people would vote on things they don ' t care about and that would somehow lead to issues ? These aren ' t mandatory things to vote on so if people didn ' t care they probably wouldn ' t vote would be my guess . Then you have the problem of their education its self being corruptedI agree this would certainly be a challenge in some regards but we do have some ways to measure intelligence although they are not perfect . The key for intelligence is the capability to be able to understand new material effectively and critically think through it and I think that standardized testing combined with direct observation can certainly elicit these qualities . As for ethics I am not referring to their views on controversial topics but rather how they conduct themselves . As a simple example , these people could be presented with some ethical situation where they think no one is watching and their actions could be evaluated . you go on to say that we should pick people of varying backgrounds , which is completely contradictory to the education system you mention . I fail to see how this is the case . All I said is that they are deemed to be somewhat intelligent and somewhat ethical to be given this option . They have a large variety of cultural , ethnic , socioeconomic differences that they lived in and experienced for an extended period of time before being given the option to go through with this . just about everyone knows that trying to set up something new would be much , much worseI disagree . Not a single person alive has ever witnessed the United States setting up a new government . People have seen changes but never a complete overhaul . So literally no one knows that trying to set something new up would be worse . I could see how many would think that this type of change could be bad , because we tend to resist the idea of change . However , the current system is in a poor state , and I think its important to find ways to improve it .