Why is Australia the only "core anglosphere" country where voting is mandatory? - eviltoast
  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Are you talking about feeling too tired to spend 20 minutes voting 3 times every 4 years or cutting out your own heart to give to someone?

    Cause in the the latter case I agree and in the former I say buck up mate, we live in a society and that means doing stuff for people when we don’t always feel like it.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Voting quality doesn’t improve with greater turnout. There’s a duty here, if we declare it to be such, but it yields no benefit.

      • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 months ago

        So firstly that is a non sequitur. Either we are talking about whether the sacrifice demanded is unethically steep or we are talking whether the initiative is ineffective.

        Lets put that aside though, just making a note this is a separate point to explore.

        I would first ask what you mean by voting quality. Could you explain?

        • eatthecake@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          They mean some people shouldn’t vote because their opinion is low quality and should be ignored. It’s an anti democratic belief that the stupid/misinformed shouldn’t vote.