Rigid Thinking

Today I was reminded how easy it is to leave out the brush-strokes in mental pictures. Yes my ideas and thoughts are paintings of what I dream about. But the thing to remember is my opinions may not include the entire scope. I appreciate zaadz for that. I am able to look in on other peoples thoughts and concepts and decide if it is good for me.

Today I popped onto Adam's biog. In it he has an entry that speaks about Voting Issues. This has been a very near and dear topic to me for years. I have always been rigid in thinking that ALL Americans should vote. In his document, He mentions things I never even considered.

One is that there is a percentage of American's. Whose religious doctrine forbids them from voting. This may seem to be Anti Government. Truth be told, it is a true and accurate demonstration of democracy. Either we have a free choice of religion and the right to abstain from voting. I would think that forcing everyone to vote would turn us into a draconian nation. The very thing we claim to be against. Another aspect mentioned by Adam. Was that if Everyone was forced to vote. Then some would be going against their conscious and may vote for people out of spite or a lie. Spite being to skew the turnout. A lie in casting a vote for someone you don't agree with.

My whole point of all of this is rigid thinking. I use to get very upset at voter turnout being low. It frustrated me that there are people who don't vote. I even considered that you loose your citizenship for the term of the election. This fellow zaadzter opened my eyes to another way of thinking. I have discussed this issue at great lengths with friends and colleagues in real time. Not one of them made the points that I just read on Zaadz.