An Indepth Look Into A Geek's Soul

So, I stumbled back upon an old "game" that I used to play called Nation States.  The reason game is quoted is because while it is described as a game, there really isn't any way to win, no enemies to defeat, and no real firm end goal.  The basis of the game is that you are the ruler of a government and everyday, a certain number of issues come up that you may answer.  The issues brought up are generally broad in nature and often blown out of proportion.  The issues will range from politics, to economics, to civil liberaties, and everything in between.  Anyways, I figure as a way to try and get this blog to claw it's way back out of the grave, I will post an interesting issue when I come across them and post them here, as well as my reasoning why I chose the answer that I did.

The issue at hand today is:

"In response to a slow news week, certain highbrow newspapers have stirred up the debate over voluntary vs compulsory voting."

This would probably seem like a weird thing to argue about if you go back to the founding days of the United States.  I feel like back in those days, people actually looked forward to voting and wanted to have an active hand in the decision of their country.  In today's society, the opposite view seems to be the more popular one, probably because of the seemingly high amount of out of touch politicians that have been elected.  However, even with this change in culture values, I don't think anyone now or in the past has ever really thought that voting should be compulsory, though it has always been strongly recommended.  Even today, voting should remain voluntary.  Yes, I know that millions have died over the years for our right to vote and elect whoever we want to, but in the end, you can't force someone to do their democractic duty to society.  If they don't want to vote, then they probably don't know anything about the candidates.  If you force them to vote, their vote would be almost certainly a throw away vote to whoever's name sounds the best.  That is not what any society needs.  For that reason, voting should always be voluntary.

So yeah, how about them apples?  We'll see how long this goes on for.  I'll only try to post the more interesting ones that I come across.  Let me know if you guys find this even the least bit interesting.

Peace Out.