Subject: Re: Tan: Compulsory Voting From: jsn@concentric.net (John S. Novak, III) Organization: Cynics Central Reply-To: jsn@concentric.net Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan NNTP-Posting-Host: ts029d39.chi-il.concentric.net (206.173.190.195) On 15 Jun 2001 07:36:21 -0700, Young Blandford wrote: >> I suppose I live in Australia, where this isn't an issue, and many of the >> issues evident in American society (gun laws, death penalties, unenforced >> voting) seem ludicrous to me. >I can appreciate that different countries need different >forms of Government, the British system being, of course, the >best example of an effective voting system. However, surely >when people are forced to vote it is no longer a democracy. Some day, when I die, I will discover whether or not there is a God. If there is, I am going to have a flaming sword of my own, and a long list of questions. "Justify Parkinson's disease," I'll ask. "What are the ethical ramifications of freeing yourself from your own commanded ethical code?" is another. "Why are you, in your supposedly infinite wisdom, unable to come up with a message that fails to attract a very vocal contingent of total assholes?" And most importantly, "What the hell did you do to the Australians that causes them to so stridently insist that compulsory voting is a good idea?" -- John S. Novak, III jsn@concentric.net The Humblest Man on the Net