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If you choose not to vote, then you are implicitly voting for "whatever ends up winning."
by ryandrake 5mo ago
If you choose not to vote, then you are implicitly voting for "whatever ends up winning."
- Marsymars 5mo agoIt's conceptually pretty weird to have a mental model where the single vote that brings one side to 50%+1 implicitly flips millions of other votes.
- array_key_first 5mo agoIt makes sense when you consider those millions of other voters are apathetic by definition. They can be implicitly flipped like that because they, supposedly, don't care at all. If they did care then they would vote and then wouldn't be subject to that. And that is why it is vital to be extremely careful with apathy, in all aspects of life. Because apathy is a choice.
- Aachen 5mo agoYou leave it to others if you choose not to vote, yes, but you didn't vote, neither implicitly nor explicitly. It doesn't allow one to add you to the tally of voters for yes or no as the person above did