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Originally Posted by Shearwater
(emphasis mine)
And who would be the judge of that?
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Don't try to relativise what I said until it means nothing anymore. What I pointed out is self-explanatory. The issue does not need to get judged by a judge. Becasue it is plain and simple.
If you do not know your options in a situation where you make a choice, you can't make an educated decision on what to chose, and why. What's difficult about understanding that?
Democracy detoriates when being decided upon by reasons of only habits and "becasue others do it, so I do it too" and "all my family doe slike that" or "last year i did this, so this year i do the same/do different".
If you can't give educated reasons and arguments for your decisions, do not expect others to take your precious little "opinion" as important. just claiming to have an opinion and leave it to that, or leaving the explanation and argument for your choice to others (in this case, a software whose mechanisms you do not even care to check out), is not good enough. such an unfounded opinion that even the holder of that opinion does not care for, means nothing to anyone.
I have a great idea. For a small fee, I am willing to fill the ballot for you. That way the burden to think about how to use your freedom and why to make this choice and not the other, is taken off your shoulders. Sounds like a fair deal to me.
Freedom is no right imo, but a
skill. It must be learned and practiced. It can't be given, therefore, but must be taken. A given freedom is not worth much if people do not know how to use it, and for what. To the ammount you do learn this skill, you can become free - or stay unfree. The ammount to which you learn it, it produces "free" conditions in the environment you live in. Don't care to learn to be free, and you will see the world you live in becoming unfree.
Or to be more precise and make the point clear: you would be unable to see that lacking freedom.