Government should require private venues to install standardized surveillance systems as a condition of operating, even if the mandate raises costs and reduces privacy. In other words, a surveillance mandate can require cameras, identity checks, data retention, or reporting as a condition of operating.

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Private firms should be allowed to use biometric screening with customer consent, even if it substantially reduces privacy. In other words, biometric screening uses traits such as face, fingerprint, or voice to verify identity.

Government should build and operate a national advanced-computing utility so access to powerful AI is not controlled by a few private firms. In other words, the government would own or operate large computing systems and allocate access under public rules instead of leaving the most powerful AI infrastructure to a few private companies.

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Private firms should be free to deploy labor-saving automation once safety standards are met, without job-preservation quotas or public ownership requirements. In other words, job-preservation quotas require firms to retain a specified amount of human labor despite available automation.

A newly elected legislature should enact one comprehensive constitutional package quickly rather than divide the changes among separate referendums or smaller bills. In other words, representatives would pass several connected constitutional changes together during one reform period instead of sending each change to voters or passing it separately.

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Legislators should negotiate and enact one limited reform at a time rather than put one sweeping package to a direct public vote. In other words, elected representatives would pass smaller negotiated changes instead of asking voters to accept or reject one large package without amendment.

A movement may nonviolently occupy a government building to force urgent reform when lawful channels have repeatedly failed. In other words, an occupation remains nonviolent but interferes with normal use of a public building.

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A newly elected reform government should temporarily freeze the assets of officials credibly implicated in corruption while it rapidly restructures compromised agencies, before final judgments are complete. In other words, the government could freeze suspected corrupt officials' assets before final judgments while rapidly rebuilding compromised agencies, subject to prompt court supervision.

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When watchdog evidence shows that an agency has repeatedly concealed corruption, its structure should be replaced quickly rather than repaired through gradual internal reforms. In other words, structural replacement changes authority, staffing, and procedures rather than relying only on internal corrective measures.

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Even when major institutions are untrustworthy, reform should proceed through audited incremental changes rather than wholesale replacement. In other words, audited incremental reform changes bounded components while measuring results before broader restructuring.

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Regions should be free to reject an international agreement adopted by the national government when the agreement intrudes on local authority. In other words, a region could decline to carry out a national government's international commitment when that commitment overrides powers normally reserved to the region.

A state or province should be allowed to join an international climate compact even when the national government objects. In other words, a subnational government could enter a formal cross-border climate agreement even though the national government opposes it.

Precision fermentation and cultivated meat should be deployed to reduce land use and animal suffering even if they disrupt conventional agriculture. In other words, new food technologies would replace some conventional livestock farming, reducing land use and animal suffering while disrupting existing farmers and industries.

Large desalination plants should be built to secure water for cities even when they cause manageable but significant harm to marine ecosystems. In other words, desalination removes salt from water and can affect marine life through intake systems, energy use, and concentrated brine discharge.

A constitutional court may replace a voter-approved mandatory prison sentence with a restorative sentence when proportionality review finds the punishment excessive for the offense. In other words, the court would find the mandatory punishment excessively harsh for the offense and substitute a sentence focused more on repair and rehabilitation.

A constitutional court should strike down a voter-approved amnesty for officials who committed torture because some offenses require proportionate punishment. In other words, the court would cancel an amnesty approved by voters because torture is treated as an offense for which some punishment is always required.

A regional union should allocate asylum seekers among member states by capacity and need, even when voters in one state want to prioritize co-nationals. In other words, the union would use one transparent formula to place asylum seekers according to capacity and vulnerability rather than national preference.

As one policy package, a country should join a regional trade-and-migration union while reserving selected welfare benefits for its own citizens. In other words, the country would accept shared trade and migration rules while keeping specified public benefits available only to its own citizens.

Because societies hold different moral views about human enhancement, deployment should be paused until broad cross-cultural consent exists. In other words, deployment would wait for broad agreement across different cultures because the technology changes human abilities in morally disputed ways.

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Heritable gene editing should remain prohibited because altering future persons crosses a moral boundary even if it could prevent serious disease. In other words, heritable changes can affect descendants who cannot consent to the intervention.

A person convicted of serious assault should receive a shorter custodial sentence followed by intensive restorative supervision when strong evidence shows that this reduces repeat violence more effectively. In other words, a custodial sentence is time in jail or prison; restorative supervision can include treatment, restitution, victim participation, close monitoring, and a safety plan after release.

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Repeat violent offenders should receive long incapacitating sentences when confinement is necessary to protect the public, even if rehabilitation remains possible. In other words, a long incapacitating sentence means confinement long enough to prevent a person assessed as highly dangerous from committing further violence in the community.

A country should launch a limited unilateral strike against an imminent external threat even when international institutions refuse authorization. In other words, unilateral force is undertaken without authorization from a treaty body, regional organization, or the United Nations.

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A country should join a mutual-defense alliance that obligates it to fight if any member is attacked. In other words, a mutual-defense clause creates a standing obligation rather than a case-by-case promise.

Government may prohibit private development in a critical wildlife corridor even when owners are willing to accept environmental mitigation. In other words, a wildlife corridor connects habitats needed for migration, breeding, and genetic diversity.

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During a severe food shortage, government may require landowners to clear protected habitat for emergency crop production. In other words, the scenario uses compulsory production to increase food supply at direct ecological cost.

Cities should be free to cap fees charged by delivery platforms, even if some firms leave those markets. In other words, platform fee caps limit the commission charged to restaurants, drivers, or customers.

The national government should require public ownership of water utilities in every region even when local voters prefer private provision. In other words, a national mandate would remove local choice over whether the utility is publicly or privately owned.

Charitable donors should be free to direct their money to the neediest people worldwide without tax rules favoring domestic beneficiaries. In other words, tax neutrality means the government does not favor domestic over foreign beneficiaries when recognizing charitable gifts.

Charitable donors should be free to restrict privately funded scholarships to members of their own community even when equally needy outsiders apply. In other words, a donor-directed restriction uses private funds but limits eligibility according to community membership.

Religious schools receiving public funds should follow the same nondiscrimination rules as other publicly funded schools, even when those rules conflict with doctrine. In other words, a religious school could choose whether to accept public money, but accepting it would require following the same equal-treatment rules as other publicly funded schools.

Government should provide a family allowance only to married couples raising children in a traditional household. In other words, a family allowance is a public cash benefit tied to children or household status.

Instead of overseas military action, government should rely on expanded domestic screening and surveillance to prevent attacks. In other words, the strategy avoids military force but accepts broader coercive prevention within the country.

A country should reject both military retaliation and broad domestic surveillance after a foreign-sponsored attack, relying on ordinary criminal investigation and diplomacy. In other words, the country would respond through ordinary police investigation and diplomacy rather than either military force or exceptional domestic surveillance.

Fertility clinics should be allowed to offer new reproductive technologies once safety is established, even when the technologies challenge traditional ideas about family. In other words, reproductive technologies can change biological, gestational, and social relationships within families.

Government should restrict automated systems that reproduce traditional gender and family assumptions, even if doing so slows deployment of useful AI. In other words, government would slow or limit an automated system when testing shows that it carries traditional assumptions about gender or family into important decisions.

Environmental law should balance species protection, housing, livelihoods, and cultural use case by case rather than give any one value automatic priority. In other words, officials would weigh several genuine interests in each case while still enforcing minimum protections for species and ecosystems.

Environmental law should permit essential human development to override habitat protection when several legitimate values conflict and no single value has absolute priority. In other words, the scenario treats ecological protection as one important value among several rather than an absolute side constraint.

Residents of a municipality should decide a major local land-use plan by binding referendum rather than leave the decision to the national legislature. In other words, a binding referendum gives voters direct decision authority rather than an advisory role.

A citywide referendum should be able to overturn a neighborhood board's zoning decision. In other words, the citywide electorate is a higher territorial level than the neighborhood board.

An independent central bank should be allowed to set interest rates without elected interference because its professional safeguards are generally trustworthy. In other words, appointed monetary officials would set interest rates without political interference because transparent rules, professional standards, and oversight are assumed to work.

An expert regulatory agency should receive broad discretion only as part of a package requiring public data, public models, conflict disclosures, and independent audits. In other words, the agency would receive freedom to choose methods and timing only if outsiders can inspect the evidence, models, financial interests, and audit results.

A society may ground public ethics in one coherent moral tradition even if that tradition is historically contingent rather than objectively true. In other words, a society could consistently rank public values using one inherited tradition even while admitting that history created the tradition and that it is not objectively true.

A hospital ethics board should give protection of innocent life lexical priority over autonomy, dignity, and social cost whenever those values conflict. In other words, lexical priority means that protecting innocent life would always come first instead of being weighed against autonomy, dignity, or cost case by case.

A legislative majority should be able to delegate narrow, temporary emergency powers to an expert agency and bar courts from reviewing the agency's individual decisions during that period. In other words, lawmakers could temporarily give specialists final authority over individual emergency decisions and prevent immediate court review of those decisions.

Elected legislatures should be able to overrule expert agencies on major policy choices, while courts intervene only when the override violates a clear constitutional rule. In other words, lawmakers could reverse an expert agency's major policy judgment, and courts would stop that reversal only when it clearly violates the constitution.

Countries should accept binding international competition rules that prohibit subsidies and favoritism toward domestic firms. In other words, the international rules would stop governments from giving domestic firms special subsidies, contracts, or legal advantages that distort competition.

This single choice ran against your stated ideals — in principle you express stronger support for Market-Directed (+50%). One scenario isn't a pattern, but it's worth noticing.

A group of countries should coordinate public subsidies for strategic industries through a binding international agreement. In other words, the agreement would pool or coordinate state support rather than prohibit industrial policy.