OkayShill t1_ivg9jp0 wrote on November 7, 2022 at 7:22 PM

You will never encounter a situation where your ideals align directly with those you are voting for, unless you yourself are on the ballot. Challenges to your subjective values and integrity will always be inherent in this system.

You're not protecting your integrity, or furthering your own projects toward certain aims, by taking an anti-participatory stance in electoral systems. On the contrary, you are eliminating what little effect your actions do have on the system.

So, how does not voting result in the protection of your integrity while voting does not? If voting harms your personal aims and integrity, then clearly, not voting harms them both to a greater degree.

Honestly, what is the point of this paper?

DoubleScorpius t1_ivgmva6 wrote on November 7, 2022 at 8:48 PM

To discourage voter participation. I sense a trend in the articles posted here lately.

iiioiia t1_ivpc5i4 wrote on November 9, 2022 at 5:05 PM

> You're not protecting your integrity, or furthering your own projects toward certain aims, by taking an anti-participatory stance in electoral systems. On the contrary, you are eliminating what little effect your actions do have on the system.

If one's actions are limited to only not voting....but it can be one small piece of a much larger initiative to eventually overthrow the archaic system of "democracy" that has humanity locked in a local maxima.