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This just feels to me like one of those things that seems great on paper, then in practice requires a lot of things to line up to work as intended (like Communism?).

I also really dislike the fact that the language used would be very hard to a non-native English speaker, which makes me question how useful it is at solving the problems it is obviously addressing (cultural differences, social norms, etc.).

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I take a slightly different view of it, with mostly the same conclusion. When something seems to require people be able to identify and self-regulate some of the baser elements of human psychology, it's unlikely to to work in practice. I contend that even the most reasonable and rational person will have periods where they enter a state of unreasonableness and/or irrationality that is impossible to identify while within said period.

I think it's precisely for those times that they have the fourth bullet-point;

> Do not be offended if someone suggests you are not being reasonable.

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