Do you vote in elections? You must realize it's a waste of time, at least outside local elections. It's very unlikely that your vote will affect the outcome of

Do you vote in elections? You must realize it's a waste of time, at least outside local elections. It's very unlikely that your vote will affect the outcome of any election in your lifetime. And it's even more unlikely that the effect will actually matter. It's good to realize that you are almost certainly a nobody. Your life will probably have no measurable effect on the world. And that's good, because the world would be a terrible place if many people could change it individually. But when a million nobodies make a choice, the world may change. You should act in ways that would be good for the society if everyone did the same. That's a pretty universal idea in moral philosophy. You can find it in most philosophical traditions and most religions. Utilitarianism fails on a large scale, because individual choices have a major effect on the individual but a negligible effect on the society. But if everyone makes choices that are individually good, everyone may come off worse. Civilized societies depend on people occasionally choosing the right thing over the thing that benefits them. To be a human, you need moral agency. It's not enough to be a utilitarian automaton reacting to incentives.