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anigbrowl on Nov 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Voting is a Sham Mathematically Speaking

Voting, in whatever forms it exists, is a system to avoid violence and conflict.

If only someone had explained this to your namesake :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat

saraid216 on Nov 27, 2012 [–]

Not really. Voting only avoids violence and conflict when the possible combatants may actually participate in the vote.

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