Comments on: “Get your vote on, and get other thoughts off your head”

By: Elmo

Elmo — Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:51:36 +0000

No, I didn’t mean that we should ignore the Japanese person in Iraq. I was only stating that the way to help these people is to vote now for people who can help. I can’t help, and unless you plan to hop on a plane with a machete and do some damage yourself, there’s nothing you can do either. I wasn’t disregarding the Japanese person, I was only stating the path to help them. I’ve been called stoic b/c I do not get too emotional when I talk about touchy subjects like death. To me, however, the "head" is the issue. That’s exactly my reason for voting—issues like that. I understand you support voting. To be honest, I’m about to be really politically incorrect and say I don’t believe all men are born equal, and I don’t believe all people should vote. Some people are idiots (or rather, uninformed), some people are born retarded (not the same as an idiot—just not possessing all of their faculties), and then there are others who do not care about the result. I really don’t know where I was going with this since another personal issue came up halfway through me writing this, but I’ll talk to you later about it online. Bye! (btw, I’m not mad)

By: Bes

Bes — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:03:35 +0000

I see what you are saying; it is important, and if we don’t vote, someone else will. I don’t object to voting; on the contrary, I support it. My original text was referring to the fact on how much publicity it was garnishing/getting, and how all the focus was on voting and all the other important issues had been neglected or put on the back burner. Now that the voting is over, we have more crisis on our hands [I am not implying it is because of elections]. However, for me, may be at least or personally, a young person’s "head" as you say it, no matter where they are from, is more important than any election, whether or not the election results would affect any chances of him coming out safe & sound [the case in question was is/not related directly to the elections].
This comment is becoming a mini essay, but I also see the clear point you have that we should take care of things in front of us, instead of focusing more on things that are out of our reach; I completely agree. However, it would be nice, again for me at-least/personally, to be able to do something for some issues that are far away, issues that if they were here in front of us, they would gain more attention from us than the other priorities most of us have.
Good point though.

By: Elmo

Elmo — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 03:11:42 +0000

I have mixed opinions on voting. The care of others you mentions IS directly tied to voting though. I, personally, will probably never be in any position to help those "people" who live far away and with whom you suggest I should sympathize. I do know, however, that making a decision to align myself with a person who can is something within my power. People who do not vote have no justification in complaining about the government—it’s simple: either you pick your leaders or someone else will for you. I’m probably coming across as offensive or wrong on this subject, but I do think it is an issue as much as a young Japanese person’s head in Iraq is.