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MagicBoots
Mar 29, 2010

How about we pump the atmosphere full of methane?
You put me on Cargo handling optimization?! I am the premier defense specialist in the entirety of the UN!
Don't you dare pull my funding!
You can't cut back on funding!
You will regret this!

Caphi posted:

What I don't understand is - they asked all the people to stew on the problem for an entire month and come to a conclusion they are as sure of, as deeply and as rationally as they can possibly get themselves is correct, and the 47% or whatever who got outvoted just take the results quietly and keep walking? No one felt that strongly that Gelulululu should go after all? Is this one of those "there's like a few hundred of them but X is suppressing them" things?

They will abide by the decision of the majority because that's how democracy works?

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MagicBoots
Mar 29, 2010

How about we pump the atmosphere full of methane?
You put me on Cargo handling optimization?! I am the premier defense specialist in the entirety of the UN!
Don't you dare pull my funding!
You can't cut back on funding!
You will regret this!

Caphi posted:

I've been asked to think this over with a cool head for a month. I've been asked specifically to apply my beliefs, values, and logic to the problem rather than how I'm feeling. And I've voted on the basis that Gelsadra is a threat by his mere presence, because apparently he can't even control the power that has been kidnapping people en masse.

In short, I think my vote is objectively right. This is not an opinion poll, this is public policy on an issue that has already affected my entire country and for all I know could affect the planet. (Note that I'm wrong, for a variety of reasons, but that's not the point.)

The show was good, but the vote in the ending just seemed hollow.

Except these kind of situations arise regularly in all democracies and society manages to not fall apart? Referendums on independence, social issues like gay marriage etc, people vote on decisions they feel very strongly about all the time. Like the other guy said, there are some protests, much gnashing of teeth and then life goes on.

MagicBoots fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Sep 28, 2015

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