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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
It's rational to not vote when you know that you won't get anything useful from either candidiate.
If you perceive a vote for X and Y is going to give you near identical results neither of which you desire, how is it rational to vote for either?
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- Freud coined the phrase "narcissism of small differences" in a paper titled "The Taboo of Virginity" that he published in 1917.
The psychoanalyst contended that human beings express their most virulent hatred toward those who are just slightly different from themselves. This is because slight differences pose a greater psychological threat to ones core sense of self (ergo: narcissism) than those who are extremely different from ourselves.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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