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#82
Originally Posted by RevdKathy View Post
Explaining why I, and maybe a number of others, have chosen not to vote. Since these things depend on a quantity of votes, it looks churlish to have not voted (though less churlish than to anti-vote, I suppose).

Some of us have not voted not because we don't care, but because ultimately this solution doesn't need to work for us - it has to work for the people who are feeling the pain.
Kathy (and like-minded non-voters), I don't believe that's a valid reason not to vote. Sometimes a poll is just about whether you personally prefer something, and voting on what someone else prefers, improperly skews the results. But sometimes a poll is about what should be; and, at least for Solution #1 (and probably others to an extent), this is that sort of poll.

The position you stated above is akin to not voting for gay rights or for religious freedom for a small sect, on the ground that you aren't, respectively, gay or a member of that sect. (I apologize to gays and other minorities of much greater significance and persecution than N8X0 users for this trivialization!) You can believe the state of things ought to be better for some other persons or group, and then lend your effort to make it so on their behalf. (In contrast, by your logic, how could men ever have voted for women's suffrage?)

So I think you should vote.
 

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