Wed 07 Nov 2007 Why you should vote invalid this election. (John Bentley) Simon Longstaff has argued that "A valid vote is, in my opinion, the most fundamental expression of popular sovereignty." (The ethics of informal voting, September 2007, http://www.ethics.org.au/about-ethics/ethics-centre-articles/ethics-subjects /politics/article-0490.html). He qualifies this with "there may be at least one situation when an informal vote could be preferable. In circumstances where the field of candidates is, in your opinion, uniformly feeble, then anything other than an informal [invalid] vote may be misleading." This circumstance applies this election.
No party stands for: * An increase of Australia's foreign aid to 1% of Gross National Product to stop death from poverty; * Democratising the United Nations and giving it a military force more powerful than the United States; * An economic system that aims at increased material power for each, and not growth in total production and consumption; * Global population shrink; * Full unemployment http://www.philorum.org/speech/20051207JohnBentley.html; * The right for every sane individual to harm themselves, and to get social assistance (whether free market or universal health care) to harm themselves; http://www.geocities.com/russellian_society/onliberty.pdf * The right to fuck in public. http://www.philorum.org/speech/20060301JohnBentleyPublicFucking.html. There are more. Come to philorum and discuss, raise, and rail against policies that are important to you. Time and Place for Philorum Group @ Central 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month. 18:15 for a 18:30 Start. Finish 21:30 (Feel free to come and go at any point during the night.) The Members Bar, Floor 1 (Keep winding up to the top of the stairs.) The Gaelic Club 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills Sydney, Australia (100 metres from a Central railway station exit.) Cost: Free (Patronise the bar). www.philorum.org _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
