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RE: Not Voting Is Silence & Silence Is Consent
In this example, the men are all very strong, well-armed rapists who don't care if the woman consents or not, and the woman is in a rohypnol-induced stuper because her drink was poisoned against her consent and without her knowledge, and the rapists' accomplices are all the stupid "witnesses" (the voters) who listen to them when they say "she just had too much to drink."
Understanding that the current system is coercive does ABSOLUTELY nothing to stop it. ...As opposed to spreading information about voir dire, which DOES actually stop the victimization of the innocent that the system depends on.
I can be fine with this. The point is that those that wish to claim that silence is consent and, from that, not voting being a form of consent, have an obvious flaw in their logic. Silence is not necessarily consent. But more than that, refusing to vote is anything but silence.
If refusing to vote were 'silence' then there would be no conversation about it. But for being silent consent, it sure seems to create plenty of discussion and piss off the people who want the government that that 'silence' is allegedly consenting to.