EVE General Discussion

right.

because ccp never ignores player feedback on issues prior to releasing patches.........

Not Windows ME or Vista.

You're going on ignore.

If you can't vote for any candidate, including none of the above, then you're options to vote are incredibly limited.

You may like participating in a dog and pony show with contestants you have no control over, who have no accountability to you, and who you cannot select.

I see it for the farce it is. And I love to criticize people who believe they are participating in some noble civil process.

You're making the same childish error Ruby is making. You're confusing being asked your opinion with actually having an impact.

So instead of taking a constructive part of the process, you chose to sit on the sidelines and whine that you're not being represented by people you chose not to take part in selecting.

By the way, if you're unhappy with the candidates, run for office.

Sorry, I can't agree with this one. You're saying that my money alone isn't enough to complain about the game's bugs. It is, and when it stops being enough I'll send it elsewhere.

Just because you don't vote doesn't count you out of the right to express your opinions about the politicians. It's still your country, and they're the ones running it.

I seem to recall that that's the source of the term… so yes.

I think CCP does a good job. You'd never know it from reading the forums.

And if some politician is sending the country to hell in a handbasket, everyone has a right to complain, whether they voted or not. To say otherwise is a way to start to censor the general public.

This quote seems rather apt in light of his (sadly) recent demise:

“It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people”
Gore Vidal

Combined with a previous posters signature:

EVE residents: 5% Wormholes; 8% Lowsec; 20% Nullsec; 67% Highsec.
CSM 6: 100% Nullsec residents.


On the wider point of voting in a representative democracy, remind yourself of ancient greek history. I don't have time to give you a lesson on philosophy or critical thinking but it is widely understood that representative democracy is simply a synonym for elected dictatorship. The illusion of choice. It has little relevance to actual democracy as originally conceived.

One vote is meaningless against a tide of ignorant voters, at best it is a moderating force and you get something mediocre and not particularly fit for purpose. Much like the governments in any country you can name. You'll have a much greater affect motivating others than actually voting yourself (which is almost entirely irrelevant).

Don't buy into the popular media's view (a view which benefits them by engaging you in the process from which they thrive) that participating in the same system within which you have no impact repeatedly gives you some sort of moral authority, it doesn't. It merely reveals you to be insane.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Stupidity or insanity? You pick.

I hope you come to understand the nature of representitive democracy in the future, fly safe o/

I was being nice but if you want to go back, try bug fixing this, must have been a *****

Tal

You are discounting the fact that not choosing one is a choice as well. I participate in the process, I work in the polls half the time. If there is no one that I think comes close to representing me, I won't vote for them. If a ballot issue is about something I don't have a very clear understanding of and I may end up doing more harm than good with my vote, I won't vote on those issues either.

I have decided not to vote in those cases and I damn sure have the right to complain about my government. My tax money alone gives me some sort of say. Don't throw all non-voters into your 'lazy' or 'indifferent' categories.