Author: Roger
Date: 22:15:39 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 14:50:13, Imran Hendley wrote: > >Let's forget about the moral issues and once again question the credibility of >casting a vote for someone and against another person logically. Say we have >Bill Clinton, Bob Dole and Ross Perot running for president. Lets also say that >Bill Clinton and Bob Dole both have a huge number of supporters, but Bill >Clinton's Supporters dislike Bob Dole, and Bob Dole's supporters dislike Bill >Clinton. So Bill Clinton gets 10 million votes, Bob Dole gets 8 million votes, >and Ross Perot gets 3 million. All those who voted for Bill Clinton vote against >Bob Dole, All those who voted for Bob Dole vote against Bill Clinton, and half >of those who voted for Ross Perot vote against Bill Clinton, while the other >half vote against Bob Dole. Now Bill Clinton finishes with 0.5 million votes, >Bob Dole finishes with -3.5 million votes, and Ross Perot wins with 3 million >votes. Yes, this exactly what happens...and this is the best outcome where group cohesiveness is desired. CCC is not the whole USA, just a little group. In a situation where Bob's supporters and Bill's supporters hate each other so much that if either one is elected the group will split, then Ross is the most acceptable/least rejectable candidate. And that may well keep the group together, whereas the alternative, a victory by either Bill or Bob, results in group fragmentation. To me, that's a better outcome than if either Bill or Bob had won. Of course, this is not the situation in CCC. CCC is much less extreme than the above (though voting both for and against works above, too). In CCC, we are electing 3 of 6 (or something like that), and the group is not polarized around any one of them. So, once they put their platforms forward, we should be able to vote against a platform (not the person), and achieve a more desirable result than if we were simply voting FOR platforms alone. Roger
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