About voting
Finland is having the parliamentary elections in a month. We got our right-to-vote-ticket-thingies-what-you-call-them in mail today, and it reminded me just how much I hate democracy during elections.
Because I think that having just one vote is so insufficient. I can see how our parliament should be altogether, not "this one person of this one party should be in the parliament". There are at least three, if not four, parties that I'd like to show my support to, and I can see how the seats should be dealt between all the parties, to ensure the best circumstances for the parliament to work and make Finland (and the world) a better place. And it's driving me crazy that I can't have more of a say in this.
Think about it like this: imagine that you're cooking with a bunch of friends. If you tried to make a cake, would you
a) make everyone write a name of one ingredient on a piece of paper and make the cake by mixing those ingredients together (even if there're three mentions of eggs, two of sugar, and none of flours), or
b) have everyone say what they think should be in the cake and um, take the average of what they say (so that when someone says you should have 2 cups of sugar and one says you should have 1 cup of sugar you use 1,5)?
One man, one vote - so not assuring best functionality for our society.
Because I think that having just one vote is so insufficient. I can see how our parliament should be altogether, not "this one person of this one party should be in the parliament". There are at least three, if not four, parties that I'd like to show my support to, and I can see how the seats should be dealt between all the parties, to ensure the best circumstances for the parliament to work and make Finland (and the world) a better place. And it's driving me crazy that I can't have more of a say in this.
Think about it like this: imagine that you're cooking with a bunch of friends. If you tried to make a cake, would you
a) make everyone write a name of one ingredient on a piece of paper and make the cake by mixing those ingredients together (even if there're three mentions of eggs, two of sugar, and none of flours), or
b) have everyone say what they think should be in the cake and um, take the average of what they say (so that when someone says you should have 2 cups of sugar and one says you should have 1 cup of sugar you use 1,5)?
One man, one vote - so not assuring best functionality for our society.