• iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    No, it’s not. For the record, I’m a huge advocate of voting. I think everyone should vote for the candidate they believe in.

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      8 months ago

      If you’re driving in a bus with 40 people voting on where to go, with 14 wanting to drive to a buffet, 16 wanting to drive off a cliff, and 15 saying that they don’t care enough to vote but they don’t really want to go to the buffet because they’re not hungry, yes, I am going to judge the 15 people who are content being driven off a cliff.

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        8 months ago

        And before anyone judges this analogy because one option is objectively good while the other is objectively bad: Everyone is guaranteed to get food poisoning at the buffet. Now both options are objectively bad, but I’m still judging the people content with going over the cliff.

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        8 months ago

        You can criticize the fact that they didn’t vote, I literally just said that I think everyone should vote. But that’s not the same as saying they did vote for the winner. If you’re mad that the bus is driven off a cliff, then be upset with the people that did vote for it.

        This is excusing that I personally think your analogy is an oversimplification.

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          8 months ago

          Both instances are willful action that contributes to direct harm to yourself and others.

          No, in the context of a voting system, it is not literally a vote for the other option. I don’t think your friends tumbling off the cliff will really care much about the distinction that serves no purpose other than personal moral satisfaction.

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            8 months ago

            I trust my friends to distinguish between the people who voted for the cliff and those who, you know, didn’t vote for that.

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        8 months ago

        I am going to judge the 15 people who are content being driven off a cliff.

        But you’ll happily sit on the bus, never questioning why you’re helping to maintain a system that results in such terrible options, and then blame others when that system you help to maintain comes back to bite you in the face.