<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Mar 21, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">On Mar 21, 2016 8:56 AM, "Dan TheBookMan" <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/03/your-vote-doesnt-count">http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/03/your-vote-doesnt-count</a><br>
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> I've never seem anyone brandish the "voting is fun" argument.</p>
<p dir="ltr">He ignores the herd argument.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I always presumed Katherine was a she. Am I wrong? </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://reason.com/people/katherine-mangu-ward/all">http://reason.com/people/katherine-mangu-ward/all</a></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">While you can't change the behavior of everyone else directly, it's like a large game of Prisoner's Dillema: we are collectively better off the more of us engage in the voting process (including getting informed about the issues), even if individually we might gain a slight immediate benefit (saving a small amount of time) by not voting.</p></div></blockquote><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She's not really arguing so much about a small immediate benefit, but against the belief that there's any benefit to voting -- at least according to the typical arguments arrayed against not voting.</span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A prisoner's dilemma argument might work if your not voting had much of an impact. It likely has no impact. And by likely, she quantifies this to a one in sixty million chance.</span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She also raises the issue that getting more people to vote -- in the 'Rock the Vote' section -- will only make each vote count even less as well as getting ever more incompetent people to vote. (By incompetence is meant folks who really will make the outcomes much worse because their public policy beliefs are far less informed and reasonable.)</span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div></body></html>