185. If you were guaranteed a steadily improving standard of living (in terms of buying power, free time, quality of goods and services, etc.), would you be willing to give up your right to vote? Explain.
Even if I was guaranteed a steadily improving standard of living I still wouldn’t give up my right to vote. Humans can never be happy for long with what they have, they always need more. I am a human being too and therefore I am like that too. After a while I will get bored with what had been offered, and then I wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. I wouldn’t have the right to vote. Giving up your right to vote is a foolish thing to do.
Having the right to vote is not necessarily only for your benefits. Maybe I want to vote for gay marriages. What I am trying to say is that maybe your vote is to improve society and not only your life in particular. The offer was to improve my standard of living, but what if I wanted to help someone else through my vote. By not having the right to vote, there is one less way to improve someone else’s life.
How can anyone trust a guarantee like this one? I would be very skeptic of it. This is too good of a guarantee to be true. What if some natural disaster takes place and everything I own is destroyed. If the government does little about it, then I wouldn’t want the same guy who was in power next year too. I would want to vote for someone else, but I wouldn’t be able to do that because I wouldn’t have the right to vote.
Having the right to vote is a big deal. All through out history people have been fighting for it. It was one of the causes for the French Revolution. Clearly it is a very important factor of our daily lives, and giving it up is not a smart choice, even if you are guaranteed a steadily improving standard of living in return.
