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mangosteen has an interesting pair of polls (and discussion) going on over on his journal. Well, I find them interesting because, at least in the case of the second, I think a lot of folks are masturbating their ideals rather than actually being honest with themselves. (The first one and the second one).
Now, while I believe that many of the "No deal" folks in the second case hold the ideals that voting is a moral requirement that no amount of money should dissuade one from. The question I ponder is "what makes it a duty?" Just the act of being a citizen? Or is it the voicing of your beliefs about a cause (causes) that one supports?
If it is the latter, then it seems reasonable that if voting is worth passing up $10K for the sake of making your voice heard, then it would be worth putting $10K (or a noteworthy amount of time and effort) into supporting those causes. Some of you have done that (Yay,xthread for stumping in Nevada. Yay fightingwords for your work with Just Cause. mikeys and others have donated to No on 8, w00t!).
But how many folk are telling themselves that they would pass up $10K for the sake of voting but haven't even bothered to do more than a "these are my positions" LJ post? If, upon readingmangosteen's second poll, you really believe voting on your causes are worth passing up 10K for, then you might want to consider giving of yourself to support them. A couple hours of your time phone banking, helping get fellow voters to the polls, and the like, can get more votes than just your one for your cause(s).
(An yes, I would totally take the 10K as I am broke and hungry.)
mangosteen has an interesting pair of polls (and discussion) going on over on his journal. Well, I find them interesting because, at least in the case of the second, I think a lot of folks are masturbating their ideals rather than actually being honest with themselves. (The first one and the second one).Now, while I believe that many of the "No deal" folks in the second case hold the ideals that voting is a moral requirement that no amount of money should dissuade one from. The question I ponder is "what makes it a duty?" Just the act of being a citizen? Or is it the voicing of your beliefs about a cause (causes) that one supports?
If it is the latter, then it seems reasonable that if voting is worth passing up $10K for the sake of making your voice heard, then it would be worth putting $10K (or a noteworthy amount of time and effort) into supporting those causes. Some of you have done that (Yay,
xthread for stumping in Nevada. Yay fightingwords for your work with Just Cause. mikeys and others have donated to No on 8, w00t!). But how many folk are telling themselves that they would pass up $10K for the sake of voting but haven't even bothered to do more than a "these are my positions" LJ post? If, upon reading
mangosteen's second poll, you really believe voting on your causes are worth passing up 10K for, then you might want to consider giving of yourself to support them. A couple hours of your time phone banking, helping get fellow voters to the polls, and the like, can get more votes than just your one for your cause(s).(An yes, I would totally take the 10K as I am broke and hungry.)
