RE: Mandatory voting
March 26, 2015 at 12:19 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2015 at 12:20 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 26, 2015 at 7:04 am)Aractus Wrote: Well now I've given you a new example. Not wearing your seatbelt does not put another person at risk.
The expenses spared society by seat-belt and helmet laws justifies their enactment, especially in a country like the US where so many people do not have any health insurance.
Comparing that to mandatory voting doesn't seem straightforward, to me, because mandatory voting is at least as likely to produce negative repercussions. How many apathetic people who didn't want to vote are going to drop in a blank slip? How many are going to vote for the loudest buffoon giving it no thought at all? How many are going to be scofflaws, and what mechanism would you propose to bring them to justice?
The cons outweigh the pros in this issue, I believe.
(March 26, 2015 at 12:18 pm)Dystopia Wrote: If the system is so corrupt that voting is completely useless (like some are saying) then why not start a revolution, overthrow the current regime and implement a new system?
Probably because international megacorporations would likely buy that up as well.
