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daviding [Table]
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daviding Heuristic [Table]
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 Collapse?
-|           |                                             ←← | Environment                           |  →→                                       |
+|            |                                             ←← | Environment                           |  →→                                       |
-^ Strategy  ^  Placid-clustered                              ^  Disturbed-reactive                   ^ Turbulent field                           ^
+^ Heuristic  ^  Placid-clustered                              ^  Disturbed-reactive                   ^ Turbulent field                           ^
-| Best      | ✓                                              | Can be pre-empted by competitors      | Can be decimated by external factors      |
+| Best       | ✓                                              | Can be pre-empted by competitors      | Can be decimated by external factors      |
-| Both      | Wastes resources through misplaced suspicions  | ✓                                     | Can be damaged by other parties flailing  |
+| Both       | Wastes resources through misplaced suspicions  | ✓                                     | Can be damaged by other parties flailing  |
-| More      | Raises questions on value of integration       | May be betrayed by alliance partners  | ✓                                         |
+| More       | Raises questions on value of integration       | May be betrayed by alliance partners  | ✓                                         |
 ===== 1.3 Choose as an individual; or choose with a group? =====
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 Each human being may be part of a family, a community, and/or a nation.  Human beings have free will.
-^             |             | Group                                                                                                ||
+^             |             | Group                                                                                                  ||
-|             |             | Acquiesce                                   | Co-respond                                              |
+|             |             | Acquiesce                                     | Co-respond                                              |
-| Individual  | Acquiesce   | Perceived nothing to gain; no one to blame  | Selflessness (might be helplessness)                    |
+| Individual  | Acquiesce   | Satisfied with status quo, or Blind to flaws  | Majority rules.  May limit minority privileges          |
-|             | Co-respond  | Hero if successful.  Patsy if failure       | Mutual benefit if succesful.  Shared misery if failure  |
+|             | Co-respond  | Hero if successful.  Patsy if failure         | Mutual benefit if succesful.  Shared misery if failure  |
 Random could result in consequences (which could be unintended, or unfortunate).  May not be able to determine consequences.
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 Sins of omission are not evil?  Only since of commission are evil?
+For the Greeks, good governance allowed the option of choice, even if it wasn't taken.  Shutting down choices causes uprisings.
+Representation versus direct democracy (e.g. American governance c.f. Swiss governance)
 ===== 1.3 What is the context for the choice? =====