[EM] [ESF #1080] Re: Meta-criteria 3 of 9: Value: expressiveness

Andrew Myers andru at cs.cornell.edu
Tue May 11 09:15:36 PDT 2010


On 7/22/64 2:59 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
 >     At 05:00 AM 5/10/2010, Raph Frank wrote:
 >     We do not put effort, most of us, into useless gestures, mere
 >     "expression."
 > Millions of people vote for third parties in any US election. Tens of
 > millions more vote in the "safest" of races, even though they know the
 > result perfectly well before voting. These actions can only be justified
 > as expressive ones.

This is not true. Some voters vote because they think they have a duty 
as citizens to do so.

-- Andrew



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