---"Joe E. Dees" <jdees0@students.uwf.edu> wrote:
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> Date sent: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:40:36 -0500
> From: Michael Lorrey <mike@lorrey.com>
> Organization: Mikeysoft
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: The Education Function
> Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
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> >
> >
> > Joe E. Dees wrote:
> >
> > > From: EvMick@aol.com
> > > Date sent: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:13:13 EST
> > > To: extropians@extropy.com
> > > Subject: Re: The Education Function
> > > Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> > >
> > > > In a message dated 12/11/98 2:36:12 PM Central Standard Time,
> > > > jdees0@students.uwf.edu writes:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "We" = those who cared enough to vote, obviously. Joe
> > > >
> > > > I think I'm insulted....(not sure)>
> > > > Consider the meme.>
> > > > "If you don't vote ...you don't care"...>
> > > > However...there are no real choices. A Republican votes just
like a Democrat
> > > > after being elected (with various and sundry excuses as to why).
> > > >
> > > > So...to vote is to validate the system. NOT voting does not.
> > > >
> > > Not to vote is to forego one possibility of affecting upon the
system.
> > > All our political systems are composed of people, some better than
> > > others. No choice is perfect, but to not choose is passive,
> > > vegetative and "victimicious."
> >
> > Well, until there is a place on the ballot where I can vote NO on
every candidate,
> > then my disenfranchisement is not voluntary, but institutionalised
and coerced.
> >
> > Mike Lorrey
> >
> >
> Well, by not voting, I guess you voluntarily do that already. Joe
>
>
No... when the government restricts us to two candidates, both of whom
supply an identical result (more powerful government, higher taxes,
more oppression) we get the same result regardless of how we vote.
Therefore, the choice is FORCED upon us because of the restrictions
against competing parties.
==
Terry Donaghe: terry@donaghe.com
Individual, Anarcho-Capitalist, Environmentalist, Transhumanist, Mensan
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