@[email protected] to Political [email protected] • 5 months agoThe debate gets interesting sometimeslemmy.worldmessage-square419fedilinkarrow-up1880
arrow-up1880imageThe debate gets interesting sometimeslemmy.world@[email protected] to Political [email protected] • 5 months agomessage-square419fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•5 months agoWell, mathematically it’s only half as bad. -1 lesser evil +1 greater evil Vs. -1 lesser evil +0 greater evil
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•5 months agoYour math is wrong. You wouldn’t be cancelling out the greater evil with the vote for the lesser evil, so its actually twice as bad (or 4x what you were thinking). 0 lesser evil +1 greater evil
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-25 months agoExactly. There is unfortunately no option to wind up with a non-evil result, your only options are greater evil result or lesser evil result. By voting 3rd party you didn’t reduce the chance of greater evil result, AND you didn’t increase the chance of lesser evil result.
Well, mathematically it’s only half as bad.
-1 lesser evil +1 greater evil
Vs.
-1 lesser evil +0 greater evil
Your math is wrong. You wouldn’t be cancelling out the greater evil with the vote for the lesser evil, so its actually twice as bad (or 4x what you were thinking).
0 lesser evil +1 greater evil
Exactly.
There is unfortunately no option to wind up with a non-evil result, your only options are greater evil result or lesser evil result.
By voting 3rd party you didn’t reduce the chance of greater evil result, AND you didn’t increase the chance of lesser evil result.