Summary
The text discusses the concept of community standards in relation to good faith terminations, emphasizing that such standards are defined by societal norms of decency and fairness. It introduces a model for aggregating individual judgments represented as intervals, exploring the implications of strategyproofness and the characteristics of endpoint rules in decision-making processes.
Highlights
- Community standards are defined by societal norms of decency and fairness.
- Obscene speech can be criminalized based on contemporary community standards.
- A model of community standards represents judgments as intervals.
- The p,q-th endpoint rule aggregates intervals based on their endpoints.
- Strategyproofness requires restrictions on allowable preferences.
- Generalized single-peaked preferences are crucial for understanding interval aggregation.
- Endpoint rules satisfy multiple axioms including responsiveness and anonymity.
Key Insights
- Community Standards: The concept serves as a flexible framework for evaluating behavior, allowing for variability over time and context, which is essential in legal and social settings.
- Interval Representation: Judgments as intervals offer a nuanced approach to aggregation, acknowledging the complexity of individual opinions rather than reducing them to single points.
- Endpoint Rules: These rules provide a systematic method for aggregating judgments while maintaining independence between upper and lower endpoints, which can enhance decision-making efficiency.
- Strategyproofness: This property ensures that individuals cannot benefit from misrepresenting their preferences, promoting honest participation in collective decision-making.
- Generalized Single-Peaked Preferences: This concept expands traditional single-peaked preferences, allowing for a broader application in social choice theory, particularly in interval settings.
- Axiomatic Foundations: The framework relies on several axioms, ensuring that aggregation methods are fair and consistent, thereby increasing their legitimacy in social contexts.
- Implications for Community Standards: The model suggests that community standards can evolve as individuals adjust their preferences, highlighting the dynamic nature of societal norms and their impact on collective decisions.
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Citation
Miller, A. D. (2025). The limits of tolerance (Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2501.00578