German Federal Elections 2009

[Shearwater]

Originally Posted by Skybird

If you guys cannot decide by yourself what party matches your politic views - then you should not even be allowed to vote. Sorry if that sounds rude, but if you depend on an arbitrary software routine whose inner mechanisms you do not even question and analyse, then you are not ripe to have a word in political processes.

(emphasis mine)

And who would be the judge of that?
Universal suffrage is the only way to make sure that elections are free, fair and representative. There will always be people who will vote without knowing what it actually is they're voting for. Not a pleasant thought to me either, but I can live with it (as long as they aren't voting for some extremist party). Democracy simply depends on the belief that people are capable of governing themselves.

Your first paragraph is pretty much what I have said before, though I did it more politely.

Originally Posted by Skybird

if you depend on an arbitrary software routine whose inner mechanisms you do not even question and analyse

It really doesn't take much to figure out how it works. You have your satements, your 3 possible answers and the option to emphasize certain answers. You could just as well do it on a piece of paper.

And yes, I do think it's sort of entertaining, and that's not inherently bad.

Bottom line: Take it with a grain of salt But that applies to virtually everything you find on the net.