(August 21, 2014 at 7:52 am)Tonus Wrote:(August 21, 2014 at 7:42 am)Goosebump Wrote: That's a benefit or dis-benefit on a very narrow level. However even if you were in such a narrow community but voted for a senator. If you voted your morality would that not be a benefit if it was reflected largely in the population?I think it's the same question: if I reflect the standards of my community, then I am likely to see the benefits of that association. If I vote for a particular candidate then the likelihood that he will succeed is dependent on whether a majority of my fellow voters share my support of him.
If I hold a minority view in my community, then the candidate that I support will probably lose the election. Being a minority would not benefit me. But I would still vote based on my support (or belief, if you will). I don't think that there is a reasonable or practical alternative.
Practical perhaps not. I'm not well educated in these things. But an alternative perhaps. You could vote the opposite our of spite, if your petty, or on principle that you want your vote counted but not in the affirmative on the cultural standing you disregard.
