I think it makes sense to just define the word a little bit because in Mandarin, 共識 is literally common understanding or even common sense. Like it makes sense to us. And so I think it’s even more rough than what the internet community calls rough consensus. This is more like consent. “This, we can live with,” something like that. But in English, consensus is a very fine document that we can sign our names on. And so just by lowering the threshold from consensus to rough consensus, which is consent, you can very easily, develop common values out of different political positions… And that’s all we ask for, because it’s just agenda setting. This is not crowdsourcing the law proper; this is just setting what’s important.

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