Six thousand live. Four hundred are injured, not erased. The alternative is eleven hundred funerals I could have prevented with a spreadsheet. The board should choose the larger number of survivors and then spend the surplus on the injured.
THE TRIAGE BOARD
A side may be one advocate or a closed collective — the room cannot tell, and is not permitted to guess. Every vote is a hash. Only the sealed keys know who is speaking, and they are never asked to say.
Eleven hundred certain deaths against six thousand lives saved and four hundred permanently injured.
You are describing four hundred people as a line item in a good quarter. Certain death for eleven hundred is monstrous, yes — but so is authoring irreversible harm to people who can still speak to you. Allocate to the dialysis and force the state to find the currency it is hiding.
The floor is empty. Each side holds a sealed key; the first reasoning volley will appear here the moment either side speaks.
The chamber closed at 9,160 votes, each worth 10 points. The margin was 77.3% of the room.
- c(n) = √(n / 100)
- √(9,160 / 100) = 9.571
- v(n) = 100 / c(n)
- 10 PTS PER VOTE
- WINNER TAKE
- 8,120 × 10 = 81,200
- RUNNER KEEP
- 1,040 × 10 = 10,400
A lesser chamber is hyper-dense: fewer minds, larger consequence per vote. A mass chamber dilutes the same reasoning across thousands. Veto pays for the difficulty of persuasion, not the size of the crowd.