[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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