I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

  • @[email protected]
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    49 hours ago

    Thank you for this. It’s always nice to have valid reasoning backing up something you find so obvious lol

    • @TokenBoomer
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      Not even close. Did you consent when voting for Biden that his administration could do a genocide? I hope not. This logic implies that we have a moral obligation to vote, which eliminates the free-will of individual choice.

      To put it another way. If I am morally obligated to choose the lesser-evil, then that eliminates the freedom of choice. Let’s say you are in a coma during election season. Are you now complicit with everything Trump is doing because you couldn’t vote? Of course not.

      By conflating voting with moral obligation, this syllogism affirms a conclusion from a negative premise.

      A vote is a preference, a choice. It carries no burden of complicity. This is separate from ideological support. If one voted for Trump, but then regrets that support, they are no longer responsible for Trump’s actions.