I dunno, Mak. You hit a home run then forget to touch second base. Tsk.
I had never heard of Arrow's Theorem, but had empirically derived the Pizza-Topping Theorem many years ago, where I proved that with available toppings 'n' and pizza consumers 'm', the odds of satisfying everybody are [1/(m^n)]. Maybe [1/(n^m)]; I need to order more pizza to be certain. This doesn't even take into account the Chuck Corrollary, where Chuck wanders in after things are settled and demands anchovies.
Besides, Mak, the Erectoral College isn't just a tradition
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And who has the right, as master of the house,
To have the final word at home?
The Papa, the Papa! Tradition!
The Papa, the Papa! Tradition!
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it's a way to make the actual, difficult choice of Tawp Dawg so convoluted that any outcome can be justified
post hoick by appealing to the thoughts in the two hundred year old dust under those perukes. The same ones invoked when deciding whether multiple carriers may use the same fiber-optic cable (Hamilton, for one, was quite firm in this belief, noting that even with spread-spectrum multiplexing the available electromagnetic bandwidth was simply insufficient).