From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Fri Mar 19 1999 - 09:04:35 MST
>> Any vote cast in any election is simply your way of submitting
>> to the absolute power of the State.
I used to think like that, but now I see it differently: would
you say that a slave who buys his freedom is "cooperating with
the system" of slavery? No, you'd say that he was doing just
what his circumstances allowed. Similarly, if voting can be used
as a form of dissent, I think it should be.
Failure to vote--to use the only tool the system allows--makes
one morally complicit in whatever atrocities are committed by
the government agents you failed to vote against.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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