[at-l] Follow Through On Global Warming (OT)

[malcolm at malcolmfuller.com (Malcolm Fuller)]

GoVolsKelly wrote:

> Anyone who complains about an elected official,
> without voting for or against him or her, is a 
> hypocrite.

That depends on the reason why he chose not to cast
a ballot. Some people take the ethical consequences
of voting too seriously to engage in the practice.
They abstain because they don't *want* to associate 
themselves with the whole rotten business. 

http://www.strike-the-root.com/vote.html

Who has greater just cause to complain: the person
who withholds his consent to be governed by refusing
to vote, or the person who, entirely of his own free
will, participates in the process by which politicians
are selected? After all, it is the vote that grants
legitimacy to the official's position of power.

MF