Voting One's Conscience

[malthaussen]

85. I should hope you would always vote for whom you please.

The question, then, would be why one candidate pleases you more than another, and is not the question I'm asking.

It is a very specific question, and not expected to be applicable to all who will be voting. If your conscience is offended by one candidate, and if another candidate is even more offensive to your conscience, then how can your conscience support not voting against the latter, if that is the choice confronting you? Note the "ifs." If these premises do not apply, than nor does the question. But further, there is no implication that these are, in fact, the only choices: there are many ways in which conscience might be satisfied by some alternative, which is precisely what the question is posed to find out. Frankly, I don't care for whom you will vote, nor would I ask. What animates me is understanding why you intend to vote, and how you might reconcile what I see to be logical problems in a position -- a position which, it should be needless to say, may not even be applicable to you.

-- Mal