Editing Ontology:Q819 (section)

== Usage notes ==

Set theory axioms have much more wide-ranging implications than anybody would immediately think of. For instance, the axiom of choice: what happens if we apply the axiom of choice to people? We get something that looks roughly like [[redlink - Q?? Liberalism|Liberal-republicanism]]. But centuries of history have shown there to be problems with this concept. For one, if a group of people is relatively stable, it is still possible for somebody to be sent as a representative that a lot of people feel [[redlink - Q?? not my president|doesn't represent them]]. For another, if the boundaries of groups of people are rapidly changing due to changing ideologies or any other reason, there will be arguments over where voting districts should be drawn — whether people who are sorting into different groups should be in the same district or different districts, how many parties votes should be potentially nominating, how many parties should be represented in parliament, how many parties should be competing for president if applicable. Any debate about gerrymandering ultimately comes down to an argument about what sets accurately contain what people and what sets of people can safely apply the axiom of choice in order to treat broad groups of people as one person.

Studying the axioms of ZFC set theory and which axioms truly make sense in the physical world has very important implications for reforming or replacing Liberal-republicanism.


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