Conervative women considering giving up their right to vote

[aurum]

14 minutes ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

It's a matter of an individual lifestyle choice/preference. Both sides would like to eliminate the opposing side's lifestyle preference, but that's never going to happen.

It's not just a matter of individual choice. Because your choices will inevitably affect everyone else. That's just being part of a collective / community.

14 minutes ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

The ultimate goal should be to no longer need the goverment to exist, and if there is such an objective, then voting/not voting makes little to no difference in the advancement of this goal

That is not the ultimate goal.

Inevitably, you will need some kind of central organizational entity. We call that government. Government is going no where.

 

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

14 minutes ago, aurum said:

It's not just a matter of individual choice. Because your choices will inevitably affect everyone else. That's just being part of a collective / community.

If other people within a community get affected by the individual choices of X number of people, such that it become a majority choice/culture, then it must mean that choice serves a usefull function within that society and for those individuals. It might lead to negative or positive outcomes (or negative/positive externalities), but there's no denying it serves a function

Also, I don't think it has to be inevitable, highly developed and experienced individuals will not get influenced by other people's choices. Although social engineering will always work on the young, inexperienced and easily swayable people

18 minutes ago, aurum said:

That is not the ultimate goal.

Inevitably, you will need some kind of central organizational entity. We call that government. Government is going no where.

I don't think it is necessarilly inevitable, goverment is currently inevitable, and will be for a very long time, because it serves a certain set of functions. Such as security, justice/law and resource allocation for example. But I don't think these have to be provided by the goverment, it's not a law of physics or something. I believe under certain extraordinary conditions, goverment would be able to be dissolved. Under normal conditions however, yes, it is inevitable. Agree to dissagree I guess