Q&A: Voting doesn’t make a difference, so it isn’t rational.
Voting doesn’t make a difference, so it isn’t rational.
Question
Apparently, in national elections for the government, there is no real chance that a single ballot will change a seat. It doesn’t seem to me that a seat has ever been added because of one lone vote.
So there is no reason for a private individual to go out and vote from a rational point of view, if his goal is change.
The claim that if everyone does this there will be no election is irrelevant, since the level of influence of the individual person remains the same whether everyone acts that way or not.
As you explicitly wrote in the first book of the trilogy on p. 396 regarding tax evasion worth 100 shekels.
Is this reasoning correct? And if so, will you go out and vote?
If you do go out and vote, would you regard it as an emotional act?