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Namespace for RegenCHOICE → “cr” for criteria
Here are the RegenCHOICE criteria
A criterion, here, is simply a label for what becomes a question in the RegenCHOICE system, in order to clarify some characteristics that are important to people like us. To start with, here I offer
- templates for criteria
- Issues with criteria, questions, puzzles, reflections
Conversations with Steve through mid-2024 persuaded me that really there are two distinct kinds of criteria and questions. The one I have most had in mind is about a “property” of each party, that is, something about them that is relatively stable, and changes little if at all. They are the kind of things that make a big difference to life, and we largely rely on them being consistent and not changing. These start with basic facts about yourself. They might change, but not without good reason, and not often. That's the reason that answers to these questions will be recorded and kept.
The other kind of criteria I call relational.1) Relational criteria can easily change: I may change my mind as to how I wish to relate to you, and that isn't a stable characteristic of me. There's not much point in documenting changes to answers to questions of this type.
So what I'm going to do here is to try to separate these out into the two kinds. I'm guessing there might be some tricky edge cases, which could be decided on the grounds of which criteria are ones for which it would be important for the other person to know of changes.
Property criteria
Ready for review and improvement:
- Characteristics of an individual: for groups to require/ask; individuals to answer:
- Characteristics of a group: for individuals to ask/require; collectives / organisations / teams / co-living to answer:
Envisaged, either not yet drafted or in preliminary draft for comment:
- individual characteristics:
- collectives / organisations / teams / co-living characteristics:
Relational criteria
- For personal sharing including dating/relationships, interests, activities
- For collaborating in business partnerships, collectives, ventures, etc.
- For living arrangements: communities, communes, co-housing projects, ecovillages, etc.
- The preferred community role of the individual in the community
- For individuals helping or serving other individuals, including trades and many other services
- For people joining groups, such as clubs, associations, religious bodies
- For playing: inviting people together to play with specific roles and rules
- For employment of people by organisations, usually paid, sometimes unpaid.
If one of these ones looks important to you, please help me draft a criterion scale.
And if you have more criteria, and I'll add them above here.