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re silk is calde
Marc Aramini · 06 Nov 2008, 02:47
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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 18:47:37 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) re silk is calde
Message-ID: <607350.23840.qm at web58205.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
Everyone kept asking me who I voted for. I dreaded the honest compulsion to say I have no interest in participating in an institution doomed to follow the lowest common denominator and the dominant opinion. And to hear that every vote is valuable is a fabrication at best - those opposing viewpoints should not be encouraged if the original issues are of any importance or we risk losing.
I have always felt the dichotomy between liberal and conservative lies in a simple stance - the imposition of laws that influence personal behavior and permissible actions. Some place the individual's judgement over the larger group's ability to dictate correct behavior.
I simply can't bring myself to agree with the concept of voting. I think it is an illusion that any human controlled by checks and balances can do anything to significantly alter the weight of odious humanity pressing down on him or her. Alas, the possibility of a benevolent and all powerful ruler is a chimera, but in principal I fancy it more than the dominant opinion having sway with voting. Fascist? Perhaps... or perhaps I just don't have faith in any person's ability to govern effectively without idealized qualities and without checks and balances save absolute moral imperatives, nor in the idea that just because fifty one percent of people believe something it is right.
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