A very reasonable article, I have liked it because anything that stimulates thought is valuable.
While I totally agree that anything irrational or immoral is silly to even be voting/fighting over and that ideally everyone would agree on everything it is not anywhere close to realistic in the world that we live in.
Obviously democracy/government is a rigged system designed to divide and conquer. That is grossly corrupt and meant to CONTROL. Yet voting is not going to change that in the current system because voting is also rigged.
So if the system is rigged and the vote doesn't actually count and there is no realistic way everyone is going to agree on anything. The only thing that really makes sense is that groups of people get together in common purpose, focus on achieving that common purpose and live together in harmony. This of course also means allowing everyone else who is doing the same to live in peace, left alone in their difference. This is an "ideal" system. The constitutional republic was designed this was but obviously has failed.
The question then is when you have individuals or groups who INTENTIONALLY try to manipulate and even force others to do things......What then do you or your group do???? This is a tough question and different groups/leaders/indaviduals again respond in different ways.
Ultimately there is no real answer. Everything is relative. People are going to be passionate and going to believe and the results of that ARE going to be different.
This is what I LOVE about Steemit SO MUCH. Is that we have a lot of different people here. ALL of who are allowed to post whatever they want and they will not be forced not to post. Yet if no one likes the posts then it gets no value. Because in truth our opinions are not equal. Even if we all deserve the right to be free or be alive what we do with our freedom dictates the results. The people on here who generally get the most likes are the ones with the most influence. If the community as a whole does not like that they can either influence that or leave. Either way its transparent and fair. I really really love this model and it is a fantastic experiment to see what will happen not only as an economy but a social community.
Thanks for the post and I look forward to seeing how we interact in the future as we all evolve together~*~
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When we are in a truly free and open system. Why does a down vote even matter? That is the question I've been asking myself. If 20 people like something it will say 20 votes. If 100 people like something it will say 100. A down vote skews that so you no longer actually know how many people actually like it.
There are a lot of things I don't like. I'm not particularly fond of Communism or Socialism. Yet I have no intentions of telling them they should not be able to talk about it. In fact knowing how many people DO like a topic is really the important statistic.
If we were voting for a leader, or a position perhaps then it does matter as there can be only one. Yet as far as I know in the steemit environment we are not in a "there can only be X" type of situation.