(May 7, 2015 at 2:35 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Yes, but first past the post is a fair method of voting when there are only two options, as was the case with the voting referendum. It was a choice between two voting systems, the one which got the most votes won, and even if the vote had been 50.1% to 49.9%, we can all agree that most of the voters got their way.
You're quite right; it was just the apparent irony that tickled me.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
