- July 22, 2016
David Burress
Representative democracy is an ethical theory that requires you to vote. Voting is an obligation that provides you with no material advantage. If your vote flips even one important election in your lifetime, count yourself lucky. Nevertheless you OUGHT to vote because, on average, everyone will be better off if everyone votes than if few ...
- July 20, 2016
David Burress
Ingroupism is a powerful innate primitive moral intuition shared by nearly all humans. It is “moral” because it leads us to sacrifice individual advantage to the benefit of the group, e.g. in warfare. It is a “primitive intuition” rather than an ethical belief or part of an ethical system because it is unbounded–it doesn’t take ...
- July 15, 2016
David Burress
We need a Kansas Constitutional Amendment:
The right to vote in all Kansas elections for any US citizen over 18 years of age and residing in Kansas shall not be limited, licensed, or abridged.
- July 14, 2016
David Burress
Even though a federal judge held it to be illegal, and even though it has no basis in statutory law, Tuesday a Republican-dominated legislative committee adopted a special rule disenfranchising 17,000 Kansas voters from state but not federal elections. So we will need 2 kinds of ballots and 2 kinds of counting process. The rule applies ...
