If medicine adopted the Rule of Advocacy, physicians at accidents might be constrained to counting dead people. Conversely, for a Watershed Council to discuss the possibility of asking a timber company to defer clear cutting a sheer slope in a critical fish bearing watershed would probably be considered highly inappropriate. The basic right of any member of a consensus-based Watershed Council to forbid placing on the agenda any of the matters which led to the creation of the Council in the first place. Ordinarily invoked for controversial or divisive issues which might establish that some council member, relative or boss ought to be indicted as an ecological war criminal. Intimidation is inevitable.
Leaders can easily suppress the views of minorities.
Conflicts of interest cannot be challenged and thus will be concealed. Invariably motions are passed which conflict with higher authority. Replaced by principles of voting, ballots, representation and parliamentary procedure. Taken to its logical conclusion, communities adjacent to the Statue of Liberty could decide to melt it down to create good paying jobs for local scrap metal yards. The six key premises of modern public decision-making.