Foundation Briefs Advanced Level Sept/Oct 2013 Brief

candidate is objectively best?

Download 0.95 Mb.

View original pdf

Page	100/186
Date	16.12.2020
Size	0.95 Mb.
	#54643

1 ... 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 ... 186

174826514-Foundation-Briefs-compulsory-voting

Consider an uninformed citizen, late on election day, who has no time to become informed before the polls close, but wonders whether he

candidate is objectively best? Should such a citizen still be encouraged to vote rather than abstain On the approach I favor, citizens should not be encouraged to vote, full stop. Instead they should be encouraged first to gather enough information and then to vote. The point of becoming informed, of course, is to increase the probability of making a good choice, that is, of choosing the objectively best candidate. The upshot is that voting is not necessarily and without qualification a desirable or dutiful act. Consider an uninformed citizen,
late on election day, who has no time to become informed before the polls close, but wonders whether he

Download 0.95 Mb.

Share with your friends:

1 ... 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 ... 186