alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to AskBeehaw@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months agoit's election season, Beehaw, so — what are your thoughts on compulsory (mandatory) voting?message-squaremessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up133arrow-down1message-squareit's election season, Beehaw, so — what are your thoughts on compulsory (mandatory) voting?alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to AskBeehaw@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square56fedilinkfile-text
good idea/bad idea, necessary democratic reform or authoritarian imposition? are there better or worse ways to do it?
minus-squareLinktank@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 months agoMandatory voting, for people who have passed a morality test, and a competency test. Nobody else is allowed to vote.
minus-squarealyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 months ago for people who have passed a morality test i don’t see how this is even theoretically tenable considering what is “moral” is entirely subjective and largely nonfalsifiable
Mandatory voting, for people who have passed a morality test, and a competency test.
Nobody else is allowed to vote.
i don’t see how this is even theoretically tenable considering what is “moral” is entirely subjective and largely nonfalsifiable
Oh, and a tax