Tuesday 25 May 2010

Beh

You know, there is a friend of mine who often links to a blog for people with disabilities, where they basically hammer everyone without a disability for being 'ableist'. Thing is, as someone with some of the conditions they talk about, I find them far more offensive than anyone else. I wonder what they'd do if I told them that.

Saturday 1 May 2010

Vote of No Consequence

It's amazing how brainwashed some people have become into believing that their vote gives them meaningful influence over the next five years of politics. If they stopped to think about it, they'd realise what a farce it was - How can writing a cross in a box on a piece of paper carry any significant meaning at all?

Similarly, people don't realise how arbitrary our voting system is. There are people - many people, most of them the same group as above - who will condemn someone who doesn't wish to vote for any of the four parties on the ballot. Yet if the Electoral Commission added a 'Protest' box to the ballot, those same people would be fine with people checking it. But whether it is present on the ballot or not is just the whim of a few people in power. It's ridiculous this notion that a protest vote when there is no official option for one is morally wrong, but that a protest vote if it was officially recognised would be completely OK. The fallacy is immediately apparent.

I am, at least, mildly relieved that people are beginning to realise the gaping flaws in First Past the Post, anyway. It's a start.

God, I hate elections.