# kaal:claim:5887242-021

**Claim.** For contentious proposals involving genuine legal or technological paradigm shifts, participants must weigh the long-term value of a contrarian view against immediate slashing risk, so only strongly evidenced minority positions survive.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- genuinely contentious proposals amounting to paradigm shifts

**Source quote.**

> Contentious proposals—genuine legal or technological paradigm shifts—require participants to weigh the long-term value of their contrarian view against immediate slashing risk, ensuring only strongly evidenced minority positions survive.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted* (2025), Chapter III.B.5, page 11

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242

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**Topics.** risk-and-incentives

**Keywords.** contentious-proposals, minority-positions, slashing-risk, paradigm-shift

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