Justification of deliberation

What are the justifications for deliberation?

Please enter your own justification or improve the current suggestions.

To answer this question we have to ask ourselves, for what purpose a group deliberates? Why not let one person, wise and well accepted make group decisions by himself?

Deliberation is only one method of group decision making. There are many way to make decisions. there are a dictatorship, or majority voting, or debating. When we use deliberation, in what way is it better then these options and others?

The legitimecy of a system of deliberation and decision making, depend on it's efficiency in promoting long-term prosperty of the members of the group. A good system will be a one that need low investment of resources by the citizens in the act of decision making and achieve fast decisions and yeald decisions that enable larger parts of the populations to flourish.

Deliberation systems have three main functions, according to the the writers of Deliberative systems.

1. Epistemic - Good deliberation should produce well corroborated and inter-subjective SON. It should produced unbiased decisions, and eliminate as much as possible group thinking. The decision by the citizens will be well informed.
2. Ethic - Good deliberation will take the needs of all members and will produce optimal inclusive solutions. A solution that will enable all members to feel that they are benefiting from being a members in the group.
3. Democratic - People will engage shared challenges, will recognize and understand on other citizens, and will be responsible for the acts taken by the state. This will make the citizens influential, involved and responsible. It will strength the social capital and the education of the citizens. It will strive to get as much inclusive solution so that everybody will feel that she or he is been concerned as important and equal citizen.