MBlume comments on Politics as Charity - Less Wrong

29 Post author: CarlShulman 23 September 2010 05:33AM

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Comment author: Yvain 23 September 2010 05:54:28PM 7 points [-]

Do you believe that my decision to vote is as like to acausally influence my opponents into voting as it is my supporters? If so, and if we can expect about equal amounts of both, doesn't that produce the same problem?

Comment author: MBlume 06 January 2011 06:48:06AM *  6 points [-]

I feel genuinely guilty about prop 19's failure precisely because the reason for my failure to vote -- general procrastination and lack of organization resulting in my not registering in time -- was probably correlated with similar failures by others on my side of the issue.

That's probably a special case though.

(ETA for non-Californians: Prop 19 was a proposal to legalize the use of marijuana)