I've been thinking it over off and on for close to a week now, and I'm still no nearer understanding how casting anything about the way I am in terms akin to those of sin, deviance, or culpable personal weakness aids me in convincing a hostile interlocutor not to be so.
In any case, to vote is to exercise power. As I discussed elsewhere in the thread, when reason fails, the best thing with which to counter power is power. Arguments exist on a gradient of rhetorical power, too. And handing someone a rhetorical stick to beat me with just seems like giving a lot of that power away right up front. Why on Earth would I do that in an argument I need to win? Why would anyone?
In any case, to vote is to exercise power. As I discussed elsewhere in the thread, when reason fails, the best thing with which to counter power is power. Arguments exist on a gradient of rhetorical power, too. And handing someone a rhetorical stick to beat me with just seems like giving a lot of that power away right up front. Why on Earth would I do that in an argument I need to win? Why would anyone?