The consultation form offers two options I can't support. What should I write?
Politics"Just tick the less bad one," my neighbour said when I showed her the consultation form. I understand why: she had spent half an hour on it and wanted her objection counted.
In this fictional UK government consultation, a department proposes concentrating publicly funded evening training courses at a larger centre. The form asks whether sessions should start at six or seven. My difficulty is that the course I take finishes after the last connection home from either start time. There is a box for additional comments, but no question about a local session or a different finishing time.
I don't know whether the department has already settled the location or whether that is still open. The introduction says responses will help develop the scheme, which sounds promising without telling me which decisions could change.
If I pick six, my answer might look like support for an option I couldn't use. If I refuse to pick either, I'm worried the practical problem will be buried in an extra-comments box. My neighbour wants us to submit identical objections so the issue is obvious; my circumstances aren't exactly the same as hers.
How would you answer the form honestly and make the unresolved decision clear, without pretending to know what the department is obliged to do?
The consultation, course and travel arrangements are fictional.