Please don't vote if...
Please don't vote if you spend more than two hours a day on YouTube. The high proportion of idiocy to actual content makes it highly likely that your opinions will be skewed towards unrealistic perceptions of the world.
Please don't vote if you have a blog. The mere fact that you have the ability to post opinions does not make them more relevant, useful, intelligent, or necessary. It gives you delusions that people actually care about what you think merely because you can say it. I'm aware of the hypocrisy.
Please don't vote if you watch The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, or their ilk. Serious issues need to be taken seriously, and flippancy leads to complacence. The world is not a land of 'lol politix', actual issues have actual effects, and the mockery of such will only lead to a blissful ignorance of the important causal relations. Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is the death of freedom.
Please don't vote if you mock tragedy. There is no difference between mocking the effects of natural disasters as there are mocking those who are different because of race, religion, or sexual preference. Abrasive and distasteful humor against one source makes it easier to create that against another. You are contributing to intolerance.
Please don't vote if you consider the internet as a legitimate source of news. Putting information in the hands of people who have no natural right or training to contribute to it is counter-productive.
Please don't vote if you have double standards. You probably don't even realize you do.
Please don't vote if you consider the solution to a problem to be more of that problem. More bad ideas are not a counter to new ideas.
Please don't vote if you are closed-minded and prone to jumping to conclusions and assertions before hearing all options. If you ever hear yourself saying the phrase 'this is the correct way', you have already failed yourself, your friends, and those who depend upon you.
Please don't vote if you're reading this.
I'm not.
Please don't vote if you have a blog. The mere fact that you have the ability to post opinions does not make them more relevant, useful, intelligent, or necessary. It gives you delusions that people actually care about what you think merely because you can say it. I'm aware of the hypocrisy.
Please don't vote if you watch The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, or their ilk. Serious issues need to be taken seriously, and flippancy leads to complacence. The world is not a land of 'lol politix', actual issues have actual effects, and the mockery of such will only lead to a blissful ignorance of the important causal relations. Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is the death of freedom.
Please don't vote if you mock tragedy. There is no difference between mocking the effects of natural disasters as there are mocking those who are different because of race, religion, or sexual preference. Abrasive and distasteful humor against one source makes it easier to create that against another. You are contributing to intolerance.
Please don't vote if you consider the internet as a legitimate source of news. Putting information in the hands of people who have no natural right or training to contribute to it is counter-productive.
Please don't vote if you have double standards. You probably don't even realize you do.
Please don't vote if you consider the solution to a problem to be more of that problem. More bad ideas are not a counter to new ideas.
Please don't vote if you are closed-minded and prone to jumping to conclusions and assertions before hearing all options. If you ever hear yourself saying the phrase 'this is the correct way', you have already failed yourself, your friends, and those who depend upon you.
Please don't vote if you're reading this.
I'm not.