ancapone on Nostr: It's a legitimate negotiation with the agressor. The signal you send with not voting ...
It's a legitimate negotiation with the agressor.
The signal you send with not voting is not the same the general public and the politicians receive. Whatever your reasoning is, they interpret it as disinterest.
The thing about choosing lesser evil is that you are still choosing evil, thus actively participating in bringing evil to power. If you don't participate at all, you are demonstrating your preference for others to choose the favorite amount of evil in the population, which for liberty loving people is generally bigger evil than what we would have chosen.
If you have an option to vote for tolerably small evil, I'd do that. Otherwise I'd consider if the evil difference combined with my influence justifies expending the effort to actually check the proclamations and actions of all relevant parties and to actually casting the vote itself.
The signal you send with not voting is not the same the general public and the politicians receive. Whatever your reasoning is, they interpret it as disinterest.
The thing about choosing lesser evil is that you are still choosing evil, thus actively participating in bringing evil to power. If you don't participate at all, you are demonstrating your preference for others to choose the favorite amount of evil in the population, which for liberty loving people is generally bigger evil than what we would have chosen.
If you have an option to vote for tolerably small evil, I'd do that. Otherwise I'd consider if the evil difference combined with my influence justifies expending the effort to actually check the proclamations and actions of all relevant parties and to actually casting the vote itself.