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| If we do believe they might really happen, they are [[worst cases]]. | | If we do believe they might really happen, they are [[worst cases]]. |
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| The reason to do [[brainstorming]] to outline threats is the same as to outline [[visions]]: It establishes clearly the limits of what you do and don't believe in, making [[use case]] analysis more efficient and guiding the writing of new [[Consumerium:User Stories|stories]], while still letting you think "out of the box", construct stories and useful [[conceptual metaphor]], etc.. It lets you list [[bad thing]]s without getting into a lot of rhetoric about it. | | The reason to outline threats is the same as to outline [[visions]]: It establishes clearly the limits of what you do and don't believe in, while still letting you think "out of the box", construct stories and useful [[conceptual metaphor]], etc.. And, it reveals what you are thinking about the extremes of good and bad, in case someone else reads it and says "hey wait a minute I *do* believe in that..." in which case they move it to [[best cases]] or [[worst cases]]. To do this in a disciplined way makes it really clear where our various ideas of reality converge and where they do not. |
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| It also reveals what you are thinking about the extremes of good and bad, in case someone else reads it and says "hey wait a minute I *do* believe in that..." in which case they move it to [[best cases]] or [[worst cases]]. To do this in a disciplined way makes it really clear where our various ideas of reality converge and where they do not. Persistent differences in this might make it obvious where [[faction]]s are.
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| Here are some threats: | | Here are some threats: |
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| 0. Consumerium suppresses the [[New Troll point of view]], raising [[neutral point of view]] to religion, empowering cliques, and generally making it impossible to challenge anything they say even if it is totally false. In other words, it degrades into [[Wikipedia]]. Even the same people run it, like the [[Mediawiki]] developers and [[Wikimedia]] founders, who have no values worth respecting.
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| 1. Lawyers specializing in [[hot potato]] lawsuits only against the poorest members of the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]], and only for doing things that they really need to do to make [[Consumerium governance]] work. | | 1. Lawyers specializing in [[hot potato]] lawsuits only against the poorest members of the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]], and only for doing things that they really need to do to make [[Consumerium governance]] work. |
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| 2. Being force-fed [[KitKat McFlurry]] by a [[sysop]]. | | 2. Being force-fed [[KitKat McFlurry]] by a [[sysop]]. |
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| 3. [[Gus Kouwenhoven]] taking over the CGO and steering it "his" way. | | 3. [[Gus Keuwenhouven]] taking over the CGO and steering it "his" way. |
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| 4. [[Consumerium:itself]] ignores [[comprehensive outcome]] of its advice. All forests disappear and all things on Earth die as a direct result of its use - for instance, in [[Haiti]], the healthy organically grown rice and beans sold via the [[healthy buying infrastructure]], which take more water and longer cooking to prepare, cause the forests disappear since more [[charcoal]] is used. Meanwhile, in [[Congo]], [[ape extinction]] occurs and forests are totally destroyed as miners and loggers wipe out the forest to get [[tantallum]] to meet the [[hardware requirements]]. By ignoring the deepest outcomes of following its advice, Consumerium itself becomes the worst problem.
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