Re:Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
by sDlEzAtyoNAz on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:32PM
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>If you are correct and you vote, nothing happens.
Or you get into a car accident, or just waste some time and energy getting to the polling station, or waste a stamp if voting by mail.
>If you are wrong but you vote, you help make change.
Not necessarily a good change. You could be the one that enables bad things to come about.
Pascal's wager was always a bad argument because it assumes there's no cost to living as though there is a God. You made it worse by assuming that your vote will necessarily make things better in the situation where it does anything at all.
Or you get into a car accident, or just waste some time and energy getting to the polling station, or waste a stamp if voting by mail.
>If you are wrong but you vote, you help make change.
Not necessarily a good change. You could be the one that enables bad things to come about.
Pascal's wager was always a bad argument because it assumes there's no cost to living as though there is a God. You made it worse by assuming that your vote will necessarily make things better in the situation where it does anything at all.