I've been reading about democracy, I agree with its principles, and I think it's good for society to vote.
However, I find no reasonable reason for an individual to vote. Can someone who is not retarded give me a *rational* reason for why a non-activist individual should vote?
lets imagine farmers dont vote
people who are really into politics dont often know much about farming
a law is passed that makes it difficult to farm
people starve
>lets imagine farmers dont vote
user, is farmers an individual?
categorical imperative
Can you imagine a society run entirely by “activists”?
I didn't read Kant
Yes, that's what democracies usually are. Different activist groups pursuing people to vote in different ways
Why not? You Kant understand him?
Haven't had a chance. If you have an opinion to express, feel free to use your own sentences and thoughts
Democracy is retarded. Don't vote please.
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Only families should be able to vote. Each vote would weigh the amount of members a family has, and it can only be cast in block.
Argue against this.
farmers are non activist individuals
Why would I argue against this? It's just liberalism vs conservatism views
The question is why one individual farmer should vote, not why farmers as a collective should vote
Because otherwise not everyone will be represented in a democracy.
That's democracy 101 my nibba
Lower income families have more kids and will get a higher weight. Lower income families are also dumber. You're giving a large weight to the dumbest people.
You are missing the point. The problem with democracy is not who gets to vote, but what you vote on.
Man, I cant even imagine affirming democracy anymore there are just so many reasons not to. So glad we dont live in one anymore
What does it matter if one individual is represented or not?
I didn't say the problem is who gets to vote
How do we not?
Nobody elects the civil service. That's what really runs this country, with it's public policy. In the dismantling of the spoils system and culminating with their victory against McCarthyism they are completely untouchable.
money and jews
Putting aside that voting for a representative instead of an issue is just authoritarianism with an extra step, the process of voting is a statistic.
We are trying to find out what the DEMOS, or the group wants, and we are using a census to figure it out.
Unfortunately, not everyone votes.
We could randomly sample and get a more accurate value than the self-selected group of those that vote, but that is not what we have.
Therefore, why vote? Because the more of us who vote that approaches the census, the less bias effect the self-selected voters have on the outcome.
>Argue against this.
thats arguing for it retard
>Because the more of us who vote that approaches the census, the less bias effect the self-selected voters have on the outcome.
That's not a reason for a rational individual to vote: the impact of a single voter is insignificant
representation
if 100 farmers choose a representative,and said representative votes from them
the power is being delegated to a third party that might or not distort your interest as causes of his personal bias
direct democracy is a reaffirmation of the individual rigth to chooses what is best for himself