2011-07-18, 12:52 PM
Eos Wrote:That's not true. Not giving someone CPR isn't helping them or hurting them, directly, it's still neglecting them and allowing them to die.
"Its not my fault if I don't vote" is an excuse, pure and simple. If more people voted more people would have incentive to run in the first place. As it is the majority of voters do so because they've had their buttons pushed, not because they've tried to make an informed decision on the agenda of who they're voting for which means the candidates most likely to run are the ones who can and will push buttons and therefore get elected. The apathetic non-voters have the potential to completely change how elections play out but instead choose to create a self fulfilling prophecy of not mattering.
You have the right to disagree with what your politicians are doing whether you voted for them or not, and the right to seek action to address their behaviors if you disagree with them. You may as well also exercise your right to determine who ends up there rather than treating it like somebody else's mistake you have to live with.
Why should I save someone? In essence, it really isn't my problem. Many would call that cold and even horrible, so I guess I'm just not a nice person; still, why is it that a person should be obligated to act on something that has absolutely nothing to do with them? On the very small offchance that in the future that person could have given me a good career path opening, well, I'm willing to accept that loss, because there is an equally small but viable chance that the person will go on to commit a crime later in life. Neutrality is not evil, it's just neutrality. Also, I disagree that more motivated voting would result in a better system, because our system is fundamentally broken at this point and needs to be totally redone. I'm not one of those people that thinks we are the worst country in the world, because I realize we are still probably one of the better ones system-wise, and to me it's scary as hell that a country this broken is still basically the most free. It's not a matter of "well, its the least bad", I see it as, "wow, the standard is so low we are near the top just based on the fact that everywhere else sucks even more".

