Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> 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.
On the contrary. The only thing that can make me morally complicit in *anything* is giving my consent to it. If the government offers me two candidates, Adolf Hitler and Michael Dukakis, my voting for Dukakis doesn't make me liable for whatever portion of the national debt he runs up. Nor does my refusal to vote entirely make me liable for Hitler's actions.
-- sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://pobox.com/~sentience/AI_design.temp.html http://pobox.com/~sentience/singul_arity.html Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you everything I think I know.