How Should People Decide to Vote?

[Lechasseur]

This is something of a false dichotomy, particularly in the long term. If one focuses on just oneself, and damn the community at large, as community life deteriorates, your life might be negatively impacted, and how about your descendants, who might not end up in the same situation as you? No man is an island. We all live in communities, and depend upon such communities.

Agreed

[Del Tachi]

This is something of a false dichotomy, particularly in the long term. If one focuses on just oneself, and damn the community at large, as community life deteriorates, your life might be negatively impacted, and how about your descendants, who might not end up in the same situation as you? No man is an island. We all live in communities, and depend upon such communities.

Agreed

Yeah this is the most correct answer.  Even people who claim to have altruistically voted for the betterment of the whole society have concluded that it is still in their best individual interest to do so.

Nonetheless, I voted option 1 just because I'm not sure that there's any interest that exists that isn't self-motivated....

[catographer]

What a lovely discussion
I agree with the false dichotomy of it. We should strive for both, and when voting hopefully we think of the well-being of others as well as ourselves. Though if I was given the choice to lose my job and being poor, in order to make 1 million other people have a job and live middle class, I'd probably take it out of selflessness.