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Originally Posted by fotze
My grandfather took me aside once and said "I went to war so that someday you could use my hardship to further an argument you will make on something called the Internet", he said it didn't matter to him what the topic was, that I have the permission to say he fought for whatever my opinion was.
He died before the internet but that is a sacrifice I have always cherished.
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Laugh out loud.
I wonder if you went back to WWI and WWII, if you would find that people really did value voting that much more than now...
To me, the freedom to "cast a ballot" is secondary to my freedom to protest, of assembly, expression , mobility, privacy... etc. Voting is only a small part of our democracy and chastising people who choose not to vote is like chastising them not exercising those other freedoms... and I'm sure a lot of people here don't.