ArisKatsaris comments on Any existential risk angles to the US presidential election? - Less Wrong

-9 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 20 September 2012 09:44AM

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Comment author: Athrelon 20 September 2012 06:06:48PM *  4 points [-]

When I vote, I have registered approval of one faction of politicians and have arguably lost my right to complain about the policies they go ahead and enact. (If they lose, I should not complain either, and I should humbly submit to the outcome of the democratic process.)

Good thing the idea of "rights" is mostly incoherent anyway.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 20 September 2012 06:15:15PM 0 points [-]

You probably have indeed lost the right to complain about that particular faction of politicians you voted for, if they acted according to how you can reasonably have predicted them to act. (e.g. in my own homeland I don't think anyone who voted for the Neonazi party has the right to complain about them when they predictably started murdering immigrants)

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 21 September 2012 02:37:33PM 3 points [-]

I think people have a right to find out that they were wrong, and say so.

Comment author: Athrelon 20 September 2012 06:23:47PM 3 points [-]

You should factor in that uncertainty before voting! Consequentialism, dude.