Voting One's Conscience

[malthaussen]

64. On the contrary, I am perfectly willing to accept it.

But in this subthread, that is the first time it has been said. Another poster upthread assesses the situation similarly. My answer to that assessment, once we finally reached the point where it was understood? "Then the question does not apply."

If it is the individual's assessment that the policies for which Mr Trump advocates are not a greater wrong than those for which another candidate advocates, then clearly the question of conscience does not apply. Or, we may say, the question of conscience does apply in that the individual's conscience tells him to vote against the candidate in question under all circumstances, that in fact Mr Trump is the lesser evil. That does skirt the ToS, though, so one may be excused for not saying so outright.

-- Mal