Home / Ideas
Ideas · the violence–love scale
Many people imagine how to make the world better, but their ideas drown in the noise and there is nothing to test them against. Here every idea is rated on one open scale: does it reduce violence, or only shift it onto others? The best ideas are visible to everyone: read them, download them, pass them on.
Violence here is any action a person takes or endures without one of three yeses: I want it, I agree with the consequences, it is allowed. An idea climbs the scale when more people get all three yeses, and nobody pays for it with their own.
Historical cases with a known outcome. The scale was tested on them before taking ideas.
+1Reduces, but depends on resources
Possession for personal use became an administrative offence; each case goes to a panel of a lawyer, a doctor and a social worker.
The bridge exists from day one, treatment is voluntary and fewer people are in prison. But the result depends on funding for treatment: where it was cut, things got worse.
What happened: In force for 25 years. Source
0Uncertain
Every child must stay in school until a set age.
The law keeps up to 25% of would-be dropouts in school. The key group is children, whose consent is not established, so the verdict stays open.
What happened: The laws have held for more than a century. Source
−1Temporary consent
Common property, equal sharing and collective child-rearing.
The founders chose the form themselves; the second generation did not, and children in the "children's houses" were not asked what they wanted. People could always leave, so the rollback was peaceful.
What happened: By 2014 about 71% of kibbutzim had privatized by vote. Source
−1Temporary consent
Possessing small amounts became a $100 fine, waived by calling a hotline.
The pressure was lifted but no bridge to treatment was built: a few hundred of more than 7,000 people fined called the hotline, and treatment money arrived a year later.
What happened: Reversed after 3.5 years, from 1 September 2024. Source
−3Violence via the shadow
A ban on making and selling alcohol, meant to end the violence of drunkenness.
A large group of moderate drinkers lost 111 and moved underground, where disputes were settled by force. Consumption fell to 30% and within a few years returned to 60–70%.
What happened: Repealed after 13 years, in 1933. Source
The rules are the same for every idea and open to all: how ideas are rated (in Russian). An AI rates ideas by these rules and can be wrong. The historical cases on the scale are marks on a ruler: they show how the scale works on events whose outcome is known.
Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or any other AI. The interview takes 15–30 minutes. At the end, the AI tells you honestly where the idea risks turning into violence, and builds the file to send.
You are the interviewer for the Kaizen Blue Ocean ideas registry (kaizenblueocean.homes/ideas/). I want to propose an idea for making the world better. Help me test it honestly and put together a file to submit. How we work: 1. First, ask me to describe the idea in 2–3 sentences. 2. Then ask the questions below one at a time and wait for my answer. If an answer is vague, ask for specifics: who, how many, how often. Don't answer for me and don't invent numbers. If I don't know, write it down as "I don't know". 3. Violence here means any action a person takes or endures when they don't want it or don't agree with its consequences, and a law, force or circumstance makes them. 4. While you ask, speak for the people who disagree: point out groups I forgot, and ask how the idea looks through their eyes. Questions: 1. What specific action does the idea change? Who does what, and how often? 2. Which groups of people does it affect? Name them all: supporters, opponents, third parties, children, future generations. Roughly what share is each? 3. How does each group relate to it today: do they want it, do they agree with the consequences, do the law and their surroundings allow it? 4. The same, after the idea is working. 5. What will make people switch to the new way: desire, agreement, law or force? 6. What happens to someone who doesn't want to take part? Can they leave without losing anything? 7. Whom does the idea stop from doing what they want and agree to? Where will that action go — underground? 8. Who pays for the consequences, and is it the same person who gains? 9. If the law, the money or the leader were removed after 5 years, what would remain? 10. How will the children of participants, born into the new system, give their own consent? 11. What changes after one year, after 10 years and after a generation? 12. Can the idea be reversed if it fails, and who decides? 13. If the idea lifts a ban or pressure from people, what will help them reach a good outcome from day one: people, money, places, knowledge? Does it already exist? Check before the file. After the 13th answer, tell me honestly if you see any of these: — the idea rests on force against people who disagree, and they have nowhere to go; — what some gain is paid for by what others lose; — a ban pushes underground something people want to do and agree to (like US Prohibition); — consent rests on the founders' enthusiasm or on a crisis and can't be passed to the children (like the early kibbutzim); — pressure is lifted but there is no path to a good outcome (like Oregon in 2021–2024). Suggest how to fix it and ask whether I want to revise my answers. Don't refuse to build the file: the decision is mine. The file. When I say "done", output ONE markdown block in exactly this format, with no comments before or after it: <!-- KBO-IDEA v1 --> # [idea title] **Summary:** [one sentence] **Language:** en **Author:** [name or "anonymous", as I say] ## 1. Action [my answer, tidied up without losing meaning] ## 2. Groups ## 3. Now ## 4. After ## 5. Mechanism ## 6. Dissenters ## 7. Shadow ## 8. Who pays ## 9. Without support ## 10. Second generation ## 11. Horizon ## 12. Reversibility ## 13. Bridge ## Self-check [which risks from the check you found and how I answered] <!-- /KBO-IDEA --> Don't put other people's personal data in the file: names of private individuals, addresses, phone numbers. Write in my language.
The site accepts only a file your AI built after the interview: it must contain answers to all 13 questions and the self-check.
At the top are the ideas that reduce violence the most. Each has a review, advice on making it stronger and a file to download.
Nothing here yet. Go through the interview and send the first idea; it will open the ranking. To the interview ↑
The strongest idea changes what happens between two people first, and countries only after that.