Comments on: Red Badge of Cow-age http://hesitating.org/2006/11/10/red-badge-of-cow-age/ Thinking critically about the world so that you don't have to. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jay http://hesitating.org/2006/11/10/red-badge-of-cow-age/#comment-1152 jay Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:24:34 +0000 http://hesitating.org/2006/11/10/red-badge-of-cow-age/#comment-1152 Huh. I can't remember having encountered an anti-voting idealogue in this decade. On the contrary. <a href="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2005/05/why_ill_not_vot.html" rel="nofollow">Here</a>'s a brisk and interesting defense of abstention. Huh. I can’t remember having encountered an anti-voting idealogue in this decade. On the contrary.

Here‘s a brisk and interesting defense of abstention.

]]> By: Brendan http://hesitating.org/2006/11/10/red-badge-of-cow-age/#comment-1149 Brendan Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:39:09 +0000 http://hesitating.org/2006/11/10/red-badge-of-cow-age/#comment-1149 It is a starving children in India demanding your peas be eaten situation is all I meant... Meandering about town I was on edge for having my participation via voting challenged by idealogues and was scrambling through my brains for any sort of response... I don't have one except that I feel guilty not doing it and associate that guilt with the democracy starved people past and present... Which is a shame... It is a starving children in India demanding your peas be eaten situation is all I meant… Meandering about town I was on edge for having my participation via voting challenged by idealogues and was scrambling through my brains for any sort of response… I don’t have one except that I feel guilty not doing it and associate that guilt with the democracy starved people past and present… Which is a shame…

]]> By: jay http://hesitating.org/2006/11/10/red-badge-of-cow-age/#comment-1142 jay Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:14:58 +0000 http://hesitating.org/2006/11/10/red-badge-of-cow-age/#comment-1142 It seems like lots of intelligent folks adopt this rhetorical posture, but I can never see the force of it. It's too much like the "starving children in India" argument for eating your peas. I mean, how exactly does the privelage or entitlement get converted into an obligation here? Generally, once you've bracketed off issues about utility or "difference making," what on earth is implied by these historical situations? It seems like lots of intelligent folks adopt this rhetorical posture, but I can never see the force of it. It’s too much like the “starving children in India” argument for eating your peas. I mean, how exactly does the privelage or entitlement get converted into an obligation here?

Generally, once you’ve bracketed off issues about utility or “difference making,” what on earth is implied by these historical situations?

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