Voting: Right, or duty?

[Tim]

Well?

Don't cast your vote with your personal definition of rights and duties in mind.

A right is a legal or moral entitlement or permission.

A duty is obligatory tasks, conduct, service, or functions that arise from one's position.

 

[miketheidiot]

duty.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: theplaidfad
Well?

how is this not P&N?

 

[Alone]

Right. It's irresponsible to vote for a candidate if you're not properly informed.

 

[Tim]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: theplaidfad
Well?

how is this not P&N?

I don't go there, just like I wish you wouldn't come here.

 

[pstylesss]

Both. Duty should be responsibility though.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: Alone
Right. It's irresponsible to vote for a candidate if you're not properly informed.

How many people are properly informed?

 

[Bibble]

Originally posted by: Alone
Right. It's irresponsible to vote for a candidate if you're not properly informed.

Ding ding ding. We have a winner.

 

[LS8]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: Alone
Right. It's irresponsible to vote for a candidate if you're not properly informed.

How many people are properly informed?

Well, if all they do is watch the Communist News Network (CNN) or Faux News (Fox News) I would say they aren't informed at all. Sadly, most people who will be voting fit into this category.

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: Alone
Right. It's irresponsible to vote for a candidate if you're not properly informed.

How many people are properly informed?

About eight people in the entire country?

 

[AstroManLuca]

Hehehehehe. Duty. Hehehehehehe. Diarrhea.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Where's the option for both?

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: Bibble

Originally posted by: Alone
Right. It's irresponsible to vote for a candidate if you're not properly informed.

Ding ding ding. We have a winner.

You should have to pass a test before every election. The test would include questions about an array of different issues facing the country, and questions about different candidates opinions on those issues (that might be hard though since the candidates flip flop all the time).

People who vote based soley on party affiliation should be shot.

 

[Throckmorton]

It's your duty to be well informed and vote, but it's your right to shirk your duty, be an ignoramus and not vote, or be an ignoramus and vote anyway.

 

[BoomerD]

Voting is BOTH a right AND a duty.

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: Bibble

Originally posted by: Alone
Right. It's irresponsible to vote for a candidate if you're not properly informed.

Ding ding ding. We have a winner.

You should have to pass a test before every election. The test would include questions about an array of different issues facing the country, and questions about different candidates opinions on those issues (that might be hard though since the candidates flip flop all the time).

People who vote based soley on party affiliation should be shot.

How elitist of you...While I do believe informed voters make more intelligent choices, there can and should be no "test" of any kind other than the "test of citizenship" to be allowed to vote.

 

[amdskip]

If my vote actually counted (I'm a fan of doing a straight across the board totals, keep it simple you know) then I would think it would be more of a duty. I don't know if I want to vote this year as my vote for the president does not count. I do not like the one candidate and the other I like more but he probably was not the best person for the ticket IMHO.

 

[OCGuy]

You said duty.

 

[slsmnaz]

it's my duty to exercise my right to vote

 

[Tim]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
You said duty.

duty everywhere here today

 

[D1gger]

Both. It is your duty to be an informed voter, but it is your right to exercise your ability to vote. The right can be removed (as in a convicted felon).

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: slsmnaz
it's my duty to exercise my right to vote

It's my duty to please that booty.

 

[waffleironhead]

Its a right. While some feel I have a duty to vote. I maintain my right to NOT vote.

 

[xanis]

Even though the vote of the average Joe doesn't technically count, I say there's a right to elect our leaders. This is supposed to be a Democracy after all.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: Bibble

Originally posted by: Alone
Right. It's irresponsible to vote for a candidate if you're not properly informed.

Ding ding ding. We have a winner.

You should have to pass a test before every election. The test would include questions about an array of different issues facing the country, and questions about different candidates opinions on those issues (that might be hard though since the candidates flip flop all the time).

People who vote based soley on party affiliation should be shot.

agreed in theory.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: theplaidfad
Well?

how is this not P&N?

how is it p&N?