Unibot II wrote:We decided on statistical effects that were not equivalent; besides "Healthcare" proposals are bound to be more controversial than "Foreign Aid".
Who is covered by "we", just so that I understand. As for whether issues are controversial is hardly an argument for which categories should or shouldn't exist. Also, I disagree that healthcare is fundamentally more controversial than foreign aid, though that is an argument that probably shouldn't be hashed out here.
We also have a Human Rights category and Morality category which are about as related to Health and Medicine as "Social Justice" is... by following that odd train of thought that categories should basically be void of meaning so we can 'conserve' how many categories we have... we could attach Health and Medicine proposals to just about any broker category you wanted.
Uh, no. I think that social justice encompasses the subcategories I suggested or I wouldn't have suggested them. That would be the opposite of the idea "that categories should basically be void of meaning". That social justice is already used to increase medical spending and that arguments for expanded healthcare fall under the umbrella of a greater social justice movement certainly can be used to support SJ as a category from which medical resolutions can be written. We don't need a category for three or four proposals, let alone a huge tree of sub-categories under such a category.
Mining safety is Human Rights and that's the correct category for it,
It might be the best category (incredibly debatable), but it's not the "correct" category simply because improving mining safety hardly leads to a direct increase in civil rights. One could live in a repressive dictatorship that nonetheless believes in workplace safety - healthy workers might be able to work harder. Further, mining safety laws will have a definite economic impact, which Human Rights proposals don't directly impact.
Public Healthcare Initiatives would be "Healthcare" under Health and Medicine. Although we do have a census report for "safety", so perhaps the game makers would prefer safety proposals to be a subcategory of Health and Medicine. I don't that's necessary though, Human Rights fits fine.
Both of those statements are absurd. First, I wouldn't categorize mining safety as Human Rights given the current scope of the majority of those resolutions. Maybe you could shoehorn it into place, but Social Justice would also work given the historical use of that category. Second, the idea of "Health and Medicine - Healthcare" is redundant and sounds silly. And for the record, I'm hardly a fan of "Education and Creativity - Educational", but at least the category deals with culture and expression. How is "Health and Medicine" going to have a wide impact aside from having four sub-categories that move money around in pretty much the same way, or with sub-categories that clearly could be placed under existing categories
that have wider scope and relevance?