The position I most strongly endorse is “on the other hand…” :)
So, on the other hand—
if you look at how the modal voter decides, you can be reasonably confident that your opinion is better than average.
(I voted for the first time in my life!
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Replying to @Meaningness @KevinSimler
Were you inelligible before, or did you get memed into it? If you got memes into it, what convinced you to start now?
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Replying to @WomanCorn @KevinSimler
I am an immigrant and naturalized as a US citizen recently. I think some arguments against voting are also good. On the other hand, …
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I would love to hear an argument against voting, I can’t think of a single good reason.
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Replying to @erikrjoh @Meaningness and
the simplest form of it is in the case where there are only 2 candidates on the ballot and they are both unacceptable choices. the so-called "choosing the lesser of two evils" dilemma. well, voting for a lesser evil is still voting for evil.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Meaningness and
I disagree that it’s still voting for evil. If you are faced with a choice of voting to kill 500 people or kill 1000 people, voting to kill 500, given the alternative, is essentially the same as voting to save 500. Evil is not an absolute, there are always gradations.
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Replying to @erikrjoh @Meaningness and
not everything in life is a trolley problem. in fact, nothing real is a trolley problem.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Meaningness and
A more real example: even if you dislike two candidates, they are almost never horrible in exactly the same ways, and those ways do not usually matter to the same degree. The choice represents two different outcomes, and treating them as equivalent is just a mental simplification
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Replying to @erikrjoh @Meaningness and
maybe you've misunderstood me. a lesser evil is certainly not equivalent to a greater evil. one is more evil, and/or differently evil (in worse ways), than the other. voting for the lesser evil might be justifiable pragmatically but it is not voting your conscience.
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Replying to @danlistensto @erikrjoh and
this is all besides the point. the reason to not vote for a person who you do not believe represents your interests is because they do not represent your interests. period. allowing yourself to be used as a pawn because you think there is, abstractly, some ideological win? wtf
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if you reward them for failing to represent your interests, when will they ever represent your interests?
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