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If a person gives up their right to vote, they do not have any right to say anything regarding what
is happening due to the elected officials decisions. Everyone needs to cast their votes. It is an
important part of our lives. They should really look into the candidates and what they stand for,
make a choice and vote. Our future depends on this one person that we elect. |
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Absolutely. You have an opportunity to choose a government at elections. If you don't exercise that
right then you show that you don't mind who runs the country. Those who don't vote and complain are
being hypocritical. They had the chance to get a different government but didn't use it, now they
complain about something they could have stopped. This is especially true of re-elections.
EDIT: Just to stress, of course you still can complain in that no-one can stop you. But I can murder
someone if I want to. The issue is that I don't think people can complain with any integrity, given
that they didn't exercise their right to do something about it. |
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What if they don't like any of the candidates? I know you can just tick a box or something saying
none of them. But still i could understand why people wouldn't want to vote |
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I don't think it's really practical to strip people of the "right to complain" without making gross
infringements into freedom of speech, if you mean it in a legalistic sense.
If you mean it in a more informal way, that their criticisms are morally invalid, then you have a
point to some extent, but I think it depends on what they are complaining about. There are issues on
which all the main parties more or less agree, thus depriving the electorate of a real choice.
I, for example, feel that Britain's relationship with America is disastrous in its effects. I would
like to see us detach ourselves from the American embrace, leave NATO and work to build up the
European Union as a world power. But who am I supposed to vote for to help bring that about? A
pro-American consensus reigns through all major British political parties.
Or let's say you felt passionately that our anti-drugs policies were wrong, and you wanted drugs
liberalisation. Again, who do you vote for? When people complain about politics in general, that is
often what they mean : That the entire political establishment has failed systematically.
The people who were truly uninterested in politics probably wouldn't bother complaining about it
anyway. They would just talk about the football instead. |
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They still pay taxes. They get to complain. |
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You can complain, no one can stop people complaining, but if you don't vote without a decent excuse
you do lose credibility.
I have always voted but I am not daft enough to think my vote will ever make a difference. What
about those that voted for the government in power, do they have a right, or should they keep quiet
even more so. |
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I have never missed an election since achieving my majority. However I think complaining is an
inalienable right whether you vote or not. Also given what few pains people go to educate themselves
in any way in regards political issues I’m not sure more voters is the answer. |
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18 Jun 2008 16:56
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