No, it's not all equally important. Everything isn't the same as everything else. When normal citizens are at risk of dying, everything is not the same.
Actually, when they're at risk of dying, it's even MORE the same than it otherwise would be. Why? Because a life is a life: When it comes to different groups of people, I'm not going to say "Well Group A is SO much more worth it than those jerks at Group B". I know MOST people do this, which yet again is that concept of tribalism, but I could never bring myself to make such a choice. Thus, my stance: There is no good choice. If a vote will *always* hurt someone, I will not vote. There isn't any fourth option to help people, like, I dunno, summoning Batman or Superman, so not voting it is. When the choice is effectively between "horrible alien deathray" and "giant wall of machineguns", I'm.... just going to leave. Thanks, but no thanks.
It's still not a correct analogy. In your business transaction, you can choose not to buy the product. In the real world, when we are talking about elections, you are going to receive a president whether or not you voted for it. You can't avoid that. And as I tried to explain at length, your options are: don't vote, vote. Either way, the number at the end of the day will reflect your behavior in regards to one person or another. And the results will affect everyone. You cannot avoid having your behavior impact the scenario. It's nothing like purchasing a videogame.
Hm, it is true: You're going to get some stupid president no matter what you do. However, I would not get the president *I* personally chose, because it's not up to me: It's up to a bunch of shrieking jackals that spend damn near all of their "research" time just screaming at each other. Again, I'm not going to join that mess. Though, after having looked stuff up, even THAT isn't quite right: It seems that the popular vote, as in, the ACTUAL majority count, went to Hillary... not Trump. So... he was chosen ANYWAY due to what I can only assume is a MASSIVELY screwed up system. If that's even POSSIBLE... what in the seven hells is the point in the first place? This is on TOP of the question of "how did such an unfit pair of individuals become the only possible choices". It's completely ridiculous. Not only do I not like empty gestures, as I've stated, but I also don't like things that make so little sense that they actually go backwards into anti-sense. Which is what this is. Why sit there and attempt to operate a machine that is A: clearly broken, and B: likely to simply shoot fish all over the place when you push a button that says it will, I dunno, print a greeting card? Yes I'm lazy with the analogies today, but due to the sheer ridiculous derp of the situation, that one absolutely fits.
You have created concept boxes of what politics are
Hm, you misunderstand me after all. I didn't create mere concept boxes for politics. I created compiled knowledge/experience boxes related to humanity in general. As someone who takes zero active part in society, I have the very, very rare ability to see it from the outside. In addition, I've been on the wrong end of the sword..... so many times in the past. I know how people think, I know how bad they can often get, but more than anything else, I know how blasted DUMB they are, and I also know how far that tribal instinct goes. I understand how people BEHAVE, and how they think (and have had ALOT of opportunities in my life to prove that). That knowledge is how I used to get jobs, back when I actually used to need them. When considered within the context of A: society and B: typical human behavior, habits, and reasoning, it's freakishly obvious that politics CANNOT be anything other than poisonous. As in, it's utterly impossible for it to be otherwise. It's always ALWAYS going to be filled with people that are out for themselves, in a system that's basically designed around swaying votes by duping as many people as possible. By making yourself sound so utterly amaaaaaaazing that you get the damn job even if you're the biggest damn fool ever. Again, this is not a system designed around the idea of telling people what you can do for them, and then actually doing it with their best interests in mind. That would NOT be poisonous, and non-poisonous is impossible. This is a system that at it's deepest core, is about power and control, and puffing yourself up to the the alpha of the pack, and I think you know that as well as I do. On the occaision that you actually get someone that SERIOUSLY isn't in it for themselves... chances are, they aint making it too far, because the true politician-types know all too well how to rip and tear, not caring who they hurt... You need that kind of nasty mindset to do that, and the person-who-actually-cares doesn't have that, and cannot compete.
I'm going to guess that your sensitivities to the behavior of those around you (especially what you have already said so far) was quickly followed by the defense mechanism you have constructed around learning.
I don't actually understand what this means.
That's not the question I asked. The question clearly asks you, would you cast an opposition vote if you knew Hitler was running? Would you vote for the other person?
Ah, I see what you meant now.
However, I don't think it's going to help your side of the argument.
Why?
Because in an election situation, the voter in question knows not to vote for Hitler BECAUSE THEY ALREADY KNOW HOW EVIL HE IS... this is why you are able to even pose this question. Trump and Hillary are not like Hitler: They're not people that have been pulled out of a history that we have already seen the outcome of. We don't KNOW what major events might transpire during the next 4 to 8 years, yet looking back on Hitler, we KNOW that he would bring about the Holocaust. But THIS election? As with most, all I see is "two total idiots/jerks/morons/bullies/whatever". Neither is good. And, being unable to outright see into the future to spot which one is going to release the army of flying monkeys, there is no clear choice to make at all. Just lots of gibberish flying in all directions. So, your analogy cannot apply here.
