[lbo-talk] The "Rational" Voter

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Sat Mar 24 10:23:34 PDT 2007


Michael McIntyre wrote:


> Nope, Ted, this doesn't rescue the instrumental rationality
> argument. If I can reasonably expect like-minded others to do the
> same (whatever "the same" is), then they will do that whether or not
> I show up at the polling place. Conversely, if I expect like-minded
> others to do differently, then what I do of do not do at the polling
> place will not affect their actions either. One vote really is just
> one vote.

There wouldn't then be reasonable grounds for expecting others to do the same (i.e. vote strategically), would there? iIt wouldn't be reasonable for me to expect others to vote strategically if, on the basis of this reasoning, I didn't vote strategically myself .

Ted



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