IMO UN resolution votes should be secret ballot.

Each country can choose (and replace) their own representative, but once the choice is made, what the representative does is up to their own conscience.

Less "pressuring" by great powers, more seeing how people really think.

More generally, perhaps a core theme of the next wave of democracy will be less "transparency and accountability" and more deliberate indirection and room for (pluralistic, aggregated) individual conscience.

(this applies to DAOs too; eg. see NounsDAO https://aztec.network/blog/nounsdao-private-voting-final-update)

i like this—if only we could protect the private space where moral individual conscience is formed, not just expressed.

but the lunacy of tribal utilitarianism isn’t just in our systems—it’s in our collective heads. status, affiliation, and the perceived zero-sum-ness of the game—these distort reality and shape the expressive selves before they ever cast a vote.

DAOs, democracies, the UN—none are immune.
they need more than procedural indirection or safeguards.
we need to cultivate individual conscience before the public expression of views (voting, posting) becomes nothing more than a pre-scripted performance.

what good is a secrecy or anonymity if the expressive self has no individual conscience?