Should the penalty scale up with the level of censure?

Speaking of the nefarious Chosomonkey and his ideas, I forgot about another he mentioned that might give another thing for influence to apply to. That is choosing techs whenever we finish one. I like this idea, especially as many of the techs seem to be faction-wide cultural trends rather than something that only a single member of the faction would decide (for instance, I don't see the Daimyo or CoD getting up and saying "Our clan should work on their Chi"). Maybe a short (24 hours?) voting period when it comes up. After the first few are done it should come up infrequently enough not to slow the game.