
10-17-2004, 06:02 PM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Re: A non-voter and proud of it, or, Why are people mean to me?
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Originally Posted by lisarea
So I don't think that not voting makes you a bad person or undeserving of citizenship. I do not, however, think it's anything to be proud of, and I, like a lot of people, will tend to interpret it as a selfish decision and may even discount non-voters' political opinions to some extent because of it. It still reads as apathy to me, and those who are apathetic and uninterested in the subject they're discussing tend not to have informed opinions. In other words, if you don't care enough about the subject to take a few minutes out of your day to vote once a year, or even once every four years, it strikes me that you just don't take it all that seriously.
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Yup.
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