Sorry, I'm obviously being unclear. Of course the data about who you've voted for is and must remain secret; there's no question about that. The franchise, on the other hand, is not a series of individual contracts between people & state.
As for people getting themselves killed, the dying is not the point. I'd rather compare it to (say) battlefield ambulance drivers than loony murder-suicide pacts. I also don't see any contradiction with pacifism; putting yourself at a considered risk, eg. by a hunger strike or a nonviolent protest against violent authorities, has nothing at all to do with harming other people.
As for why I posted this, I think of it as a broken-windows thing: I don't want it to go unremarked or to risk being taken for granted.
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Date: 2010-05-06 08:03 am (UTC)As for people getting themselves killed, the dying is not the point. I'd rather compare it to (say) battlefield ambulance drivers than loony murder-suicide pacts. I also don't see any contradiction with pacifism; putting yourself at a considered risk, eg. by a hunger strike or a nonviolent protest against violent authorities, has nothing at all to do with harming other people.
As for why I posted this, I think of it as a broken-windows thing: I don't want it to go unremarked or to risk being taken for granted.