The paradox of voting means you can happily vote for a 3rd party candidate. The problem comes when lots of other people do too.
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But if lots of other people do too, your not voting for a 3rd party candidate will make no difference. So you might as well vote 3rd party.
And that's the paradox. Whatever you do, it makes no difference, so why bother voting? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_voting …
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…there’s still an 83% chance (50/60) your vote was one of the ‘needed’ ones, so it was worthwhile after all?
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What's the counterfactual in this scenario had you not voted?
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Assuming more than 5 of us vote :-) same outcome, but we don’t know that in advance, only in retrospect…
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What about the sort of argument that goes: even if you vote for a candidate that wins in, say, a 60-40 landslide…
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Seems like you could spin the math in all sorts of ways, but it’s not clear that a more ‘optimistic’ take is illegitimate…
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