>Agreed - excpet that when not it is not made a fetish, I can think of
>some special cases where consensus can be useful - basically cases where
>your really do want unanimous conenst before moving forward on things.
In the case of the 'sewer line' - a transparent presentation of the cost/benefit (who stands to benefit at whose expense, given a finite resource [water]) combined with a universally accessable voting tool would permit a sense of the public will to stand for consensus.