"Sure, YOU would vote against sliding deeper into fascism, because you're political gutter trash who'll sleep with fucking anyone for even the weakest hit of slightly alleviated institutional oppression. Don't hold my standards and decency against me."
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If me voting for Ralph Nader doesn't matter because I'm only one person and Nader would never win the election anyway then why does my vote for Al Gore matter? Mathematically they're the same percentage of the total vote
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I've thought about the answer to this question a lot and, in fact, I actually still don't know It sounds like this is a good argument for "voting your conscience" but if you extrapolate this argument it also makes the system fall apart
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Sure, but isn't this argument doing it for consequentialist reasons? Just the hypothetical aggregated consequences, rather than the individual consequences?
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Our take on voting, much like our take on recycling, is that we need to augment our understanding of the consequences with an understanding of what would happen if everyone adopted the same reasoning. Then we reject the reasoning if those consequences would be unacceptable.
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