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- From: edp@math.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
- Subject: Re: Voting Analysis
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.161458.25121@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: edp@math.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Nov13.142353.6537@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <1992Nov14.010841.27155@eagercon.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:14:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.010841.27155@eagercon.com>, eager@eagercon.com
- (Michael J. Eager) writes:
-
- >Eric, you have postulated that voting does not send any kind of a message
- >and that not voting sends a message.
-
- I said that voting does not send any message the subject wants to send.
- (I defined the subject and their goals in the first article of the
- "Voting Analysis" thread.) I did not say that voting does not send
- _any_ kind of a message.
-
- >Your claims of who is
- >the recipient of the message shifts each time someone responds to you.
-
- The only specific example I recall having given in the "Voting Analysis"
- thread is members of the libertarian party. Can you show where I have
- given another example? Even if multiple recipients exist, what is the
- problem with that? I see no reason several people cannot receive the
- same message. Can you demonstrate specific examples of my text which
- you claim is in error in some way?
-
- >If you are trying to convince people not to vote, then all that were
- >convinced have been. If you were trying to convince people that by voting
- >that they were actually doing something horrible, against their best interest,
- >then you have convinced all you are likely to convince.
-
- I stated my thesis clearly; it is the last sentence of the article with
- which I initiated the "Voting Analysis" thread:
-
- I merely wish to prove that there is at least one
- situation in which it is an intelligent
- choice, for some people, not to vote.
-
-
- >If you are trying
- >to convince people that you really understand information theory, . . .
-
- That is an ad hominem attack; it is irrelevant to the discussion. I
- request that you observe etiquette and refrain from comments about the
- authors.
-
- >The election is over; the subject is dead.
-
- I was unaware that the election just past was the final one and that it
- would therefore be useless to do anything about future elections or
- other politics.
-
-
- -- edp (Eric Postpischil)
- "Always mount a scratch monkey."
- edp@rusure.enet.dec.com
-