On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 11:55:42AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > > How does attempting to show up their motives legitimise them? It is > > better to let this pass without any comment? > > Because your motivations for participating will be given little if any > attention, whereas your participation will at least be registered in the > numbers of people who took part.
On the contrary, I think this could create a good bit of media buzz if successful. El Reg or Slashdot might cover it. > This argument comes up with voting too: is it better to vote for parties you > don't agree with, and even a system of voting that you don't agree with? Or > would it be better for people to stay away en-masse, and therefore to > invalidate the election, forcing the powers that be to establish a better > election system and then try again? Or would it be better to vote for a party that _does_ want to change the electoral system, such as for example the Liberal Democrats or the Greens? That's saying something rather than nothing. -- Robin
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