Comments on: You must vote and your vote doesn’t matter http://blog.thepoint.com/2008/11/04/you-must-vote-and-your-vote-doesnt-matter/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:28:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: kyle http://blog.thepoint.com/2008/11/04/you-must-vote-and-your-vote-doesnt-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-9367 kyle Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:38:32 +0000 http://blog.thepoint.com/?p=349#comment-9367 <p>if everyone else votes, my vote doesn't matter. if nobody else votes, my votes matters most. if everything else lives my life doesn't matter. if nothing else lives my life is all that matters.</p> <p>but everything dies. (trump)</p> <p>the extremes cancel out the dilemma and since there are so many people it isn't likely anyone will be able to prove that we weren't duped from the beginning, leaving it up to the actor(s) to apply what ever value within what ever dimension they wish.</p> if everyone else votes, my vote doesn’t matter. if nobody else votes, my votes matters most. if everything else lives my life doesn’t matter. if nothing else lives my life is all that matters.

but everything dies. (trump)

the extremes cancel out the dilemma and since there are so many people it isn’t likely anyone will be able to prove that we weren’t duped from the beginning, leaving it up to the actor(s) to apply what ever value within what ever dimension they wish.

]]> By: Jed http://blog.thepoint.com/2008/11/04/you-must-vote-and-your-vote-doesnt-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-9315 Jed Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:38:24 +0000 http://blog.thepoint.com/?p=349#comment-9315 <p>"Just because economists understand the free rider problem doesn’t give them permission to perpetuate it."</p> <p>Ha! This is true, and is a great representation of ivory tower-ism. Rational decision making is only reasonable "within reason," not at logical extremes.</p> “Just because economists understand the free rider problem doesn’t give them permission to perpetuate it.”

Ha! This is true, and is a great representation of ivory tower-ism. Rational decision making is only reasonable “within reason,” not at logical extremes.

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