On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 07:10:28PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > On Nov 25, 2003, at 5:05 PM, BillyGOTO wrote: > > >On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:26:18PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > >>(I fully support vote buying and selling, needless to say. Simple > >>right to make a contract.) > > > >What's your take on this situation, then: > > > >BOSS: Get in that booth and vote Kennedy or I'll fire you. Take this > > expensive camera with you so you can't pull any funny business. > > I have no problem with this free choice contract.
You can't sell your vote for the same reason that Djinni don't grant wishes for "more wishes". > You, in the rest of your comments, show yourself to be one of the many > tens of millions who probably need to be sent up the chimneys for their > crimes. > > Liberty's a mental chore, isn't it? Maybe I just don't understand Liberty. I need to meditate on it for a while. I'll use your image of tens of millions of "criminals" going up in smoke (myself included) as a starting point. PS: Is support of vote buying consistent with rejection of Democracy?
