Questions on voting

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Is voting something that must be done? If I think that there are better ways to further the common good than by voting, should I still vote?

A second question: if a candidate isn’t going to outlaw an intrinsic evil, but wants to stop funding it, would it be okay to vote for that candidate since there is a certain wait time between the de-funding and the end of said evil, that I presume is longer than the time it takes to outlaw an activity, when you simply not fund it.

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And another thing :D, is not funding something better than outlawing it? This will help me with the above question too.
 
I think voting is a social responsibility - Millions of people have fought and died for your right to vote.

Who you vote for is based on your own conscience. The church has made no mandate on which party to vote for, however, you can NOT support a candidate that openly supports and seeks to further the cause of abortion “rights.”
 
You may not get the chance to vote for the candidate of your dreams, but at least you can vote for the candidate that does the least harm. So, yes, I think you have an obligation to vote.

As far as the intrinsically evil issue goes, if you have one candidate who isn’t really interested in stopping the intrinsically evil activity but wants to defund it and another candidate who isn’t interested in stopping the intrinsically evil activity and wants to fund it, it would be a wise choice to vote for the candidate who wants to defund it, since then the least harm would be done.

In the USA, we have 2 political parties. Neither may be doing enough to stop the intrinsically evil activity, but one of the parties is at least doing something by legislating restricting laws and by removing funding. The other party is doing nothing to stop it and is actively promoting it by pushing for increased funding, by removing healthcare worker conscience protection rules, and by fighting parental notification laws and partial birth abortion bans. That is enough of a difference for me.
 
still,I don’t feel as if the original questions have been fully answered.

Although voting does have a good effect and can change things there can be other things besides voting that works better (theoretically at least) so granted that, shouldn’t something that works better than voting be more of a duty and relegate voting to a lower place -at least sometimes justifying not voting (at least theoretically)?

Secondly,I still don’t know if it is better to remove funding for something or if it is better to regulate it -is it better to not fund (for the sake of argument) whiskey distilleries or is it better to prohibit them (from a moral POV)?
 
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Do you understand that by constantly bumping your threads you are subverting the desirable sorting of these threads so that the most recent ones are at the top? If everyone did that then the threads with truly recent postings would get pushed way down. On what basis do you believe that the thread that you started deserves to be displayed nearer the top than other people’s threads? If someone is interested in this thread then they will scroll down and find it. How about giving up thread bumping for the rest of lent?
 
Yeah I was worrying that might happen -nonetheless any forthcoming answers are still appreciated.
 
fakename said:
Is voting something that must be done? If I think that there are better ways to further the common good than by voting, should I still vote?

A second question: if a candidate isn’t going to outlaw an intrinsic evil, but wants to stop funding it, would it be okay to vote for that candidate since there is a certain wait time between the de-funding and the end of said evil, that I presume is longer than the time it takes to outlaw an activity, when you simply not fund it.

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To get down to specifics…

Catholics traditionally voted Democrat. Then came abortion. For the most part, the question is whether to vote Republican even though you despise most of their platform other then the anti-abortion language.:sad_yes:

This caused no end of BITTERNESS and ANGER here at the Catholic forums during the last Presidential election. :mad:

The Bishops wrote a pamphlet about voting that tried to get Catholics to vote Republican, but NOT actually telling them to do so due to the election laws. This left enough wiggle room for many catholics (including myself) not to vote Republican.:bigyikes:

This resulted in BITTERNESS and ANGER among those who voted Republican.:mad:

Don’t hope that things will get better. It won’t happen. No how, no way:nope:
 
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