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To: Arthur McGowan
I see a rapidly fading possibility of stopping Hillary. A non-vote cannot contribute to stopping her; a vote for Trump might. A chance that is vanishingly remote but there it is. So --- to remove the personal element --- please understand that I am voting for Trump.

But I don't think it is morally wrong to abstain from voting, especially if you figure on the evidence that the chance of stopping Clinton by your vote is zero, but the chance of being personally corrupted by the vote is greater-than-zero. I know my vote is not going to swing the results at my polling place, North Side School; nor will it swing Washington County nor the State of Tennessee. This for a virtual certainty. It won't change the outcome. But it could change me by being another augmentation of my cynicism, callousness, and willingness to accept the mainstreaming of sleaze and re-norm my own life around the putrid cultural zeitgeist.

My own prudential judgment moves me to vote for Trump anyway. But if I thought it was corrupting to me I would not. I don't think abstaining from voting is a mortal sin if it is avoiding a near occasion of sin.

To quote you back at yourself, with modification,

"Voting for Trump as if it were morally obligation is like going into the voting booth, voting, and masturbating while yelling, “Salvation through sleaze! I am saving my soul! Everybody else is going to hell!"

38 posted on 10/22/2016 7:29:32 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stet.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’m relieved you are voting for Trump. I will worry about your immortal soul later.


42 posted on 10/22/2016 8:44:06 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’m relieved you are voting for Trump. I will worry about your immortal soul later.

BTW: I thought those photos behind Milo were appalling. Relieved to learn later that they weren’t REALLY 14 years old. Not that that makes much difference. At all.


43 posted on 10/22/2016 8:47:22 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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