The decision-making tradition of consensus is a social process requiring and engendering humanising qualities.
 
Respect, reflexivity and reciprocity are factors of discussions where conviviality and good will are valued.
 
This guideline is easily appreciated by glancing at media reports covering the political arena. The competitive practice of democracy involves the concept of majority rule, which allows manipulation and abuse.
 
The process of consensus is more amenable to truth and humanising elements in relations, identifies the most common concerns, and values good will between people.
 
This guideline is a highly civilised, or high-order decision-making process achieved during the evolutionary experience that empowers all participants equally.
 
Truth, respect and reflexivity are enhanced throughout this practice, which in turn positively exercises all the guidelines. It embodies the ‘high order’ agency of all the other ones by empowering the powerless and allowing eradication of poverty, debt and rulers.