Why is voting spooky?

And how do you counter the moralistic argument (that I get all the time) about how there are people in the third world fighting for the right to vote?

Because a right to do something is not a duty to.

I have the right to eat bacon but not a duty to eat it. People might have fought hard for my right to eat that bacon, but entailed in the right to do it is the right to choose not to. They cannot force-feed me bacon on those grounds.

But then you shouldn't complain if you don't like the outcomes because you didn't vote. (this is another argument usually made)

who in the third world is fighting for the right to vote?
why isn't america helping them and not the perennial """"""""moderate rebels""""""""

Kids, do you want chicken or ham for dinner?
The first two want chicken, the third says ham, the last says "I want pizza."
"It's one or the other, Sean." Sean pouts and crosses his arms.
Guess he has no rational cause for complaint because he didn't vote for one of the pre-approved options.

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chicken and ham may not be perfect, but it's the best we got.

So you're literally saying that if what you want is not already on offer, you have no right to voice concern with any options nor advocate for a new option?

no you do have a right, just right now its the best we got, it may be possible to get pizza down the track though, we just have to be pragmatic.

What

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Is this a parody?

How does voting for either ham or chicken help to get pizza on the menu?

Well pizza can combine both ham & chicken, I think we need a fair balance of both in order to achieve pizza.

I think this analogy is slightly losing it's grounding… If ham and chicken are bourgeois parties and pizza is socialism, then no ham and chicken cannot be combined to form pizza

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You don't. Arguments ad moralis are not arguments, but rather appeals to some abstract spook.

Saying we should vote "'cause people in the third world are fighting for their right to vote" is the adult equivalent of coercing a child into eating broccoli by telling him that poor african children have nothing to eat instead.

Appeal to morality is a shit argument and people should feel like shit for using them.

Challenge them on their consistency in this way of thinking


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If their only response is "HOW DARE YOU COMPARE X TO Y" then you pretty much won.

It isn't. Believing it does something that it doesn't is though.
By being a noncognitivist.

unf, i love it when people get spooks right. people abuse the meme these days.

I think it is kind of cynical to think that your vote has no real value but its your vote and you're free to do what you want?