More clarification on not voting..
My point of view on not voting, keeps on giving me people lectures about how we must treasure our democracy and we should be lucky to live in one. I think it should be
normal to live in freedom, unless that freedom is at the expense of others, which currently means creating laws tries to solve that.
My parents cricize me the most (they even get angry about it), but they never seem to completely understand the choices I make. It's not that I try to prevent others from voting.
Here is a copy & paste from the reorg mailinglist.. The discussion was about voting and stuff on apache. The mail was from 26/10/2002 btw.. FYI we had elections last year in May. (the government lasted 87 days because of ego's..),
with a big Harry Potter as president :)
<swami_mode_on>
Democracy as we practice it is highly overrated, since it is still at
the infant stage . Democracy means government by the whole population, by elected representatives. This would work if the representatives and the voters don't have an ego (= speaking with one mind), which is hardly the case. Not anything I can change about that, since I (and anyone else) cannot disrespect rule of free will. Since I cannot find any political party (we have a lot in Holland) that even closely speaks with one mind and the fact that government just is there to decrease freedom (ever heard of laws?:)), I will not vote, so I CAN be free. (freedom is something that cannot be persued at expense of others btw).
</swami_mode_on>
Since I chose to get involved in apache (I didn't nominate myself though, although people got tired of applying my patches, so in a way I did I guess ;)) to join apache the mind, I will vote at apache. Since voting in apache is a bit based the fact that by default everyone is in favour, and if you are not make a better proposal. (although I sometimes forget that myself ;). Better is always improvement and thus better for apache ;). For eg pmc elections however I will give +1 to everyone on the list by default, since willing to fullfill that task should not be declined by me. If I was to be forced to only select one person, I would not vote.
Mvgr,
Martin
"swami baahmi"
Hope this makes my position a bit clearer. My observations from the current elections, just made my choice stand from another perspective.
Posted by mvdb at January 22, 2003 11:14 AM