Who decides if an objection is reasoned or paramount?
The best answer we have seen so far is from Sharon Villines on the Yahoo Sociocracy List – April 6, 2007 The facilitator or the group could only proceed over someone’s objection if that person refused to participate in an effort to resolve their objection. In Sociocracy, objections are required to be “argued and paramount.” There are no blocks or stand asides. The person decides if the objection is paramount but must participate in figuring out a resolution to their objection. If I object to the conversion of team files to a wiki (for example), I must be able to explain or allow the group or facilitator to help me explain why I object to this. Otherwise the group cannot resolve my objection and I am in effect blocking. In this case the facilitator could go on with the consent process, ignoring my objection. But neither the facilitator nor the group can decide that my objection is not paramount to me. They can only move on because it is not argued in a way that they can deal with.
