[Ansteorra] New award questions

Ron eirik at hot.rr.com
Thu Sep 5 05:05:47 PDT 2002


> - How many petitions have you seen with a column to sign if you agree
> and a column to sign if you disagree? Petitions as they are used in the
> SCA are instruments that effectively express only one opinion but
> make it seem like it is everyone's opinion. No one is ever encouraged
> to write recommendations to NOT give an award. By contrast,
> petitions in our modern political system are usually aimed at getting a
> proposal on the voting ballot. Then if the people really don't
> want it they
> can simply vote against it.

Actually, many of the award recommendations that were passed around for
signatures that I have seen in our group do have dissenting opinions written
on them. I have seen several people including Peers write why they disagree.

Eirik




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