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Originally posted by Cletus Miller
While you may well be as correct as the author, it IS a different thing you suggest is also rational. The author contends that, when voting, it is rational to be ill-informed; you contend that, when well-informed, it is rational to not vote. They may both be true and may be an extension of each other, but they are distinct points.
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I contend primarily that when well informed, one cannot reach any conclusion other than that he would receive nearly identically unsatisfactory results from either party, and therefore, not voting is rational.
I also agree that when ill-informed, a category into which almost everyone falls in re politics given the inherent dishonesty and vacant soundbite nature of the information provided in the process, not voting is also rational. But it's an accidental exercise of rational behavior, which I guess would have to be retitled "good luck," in that you were lucky enough to not have wasted an hour of your day engaged in something futile.
