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My intention was to exclude possible personal political preferences from the equation. You could, for example, imagine a situation where you don't know who you will be voting for until after the deal has been made.
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Ah, that would probably make it a no-deal to me. I don't claim to be impossible to bribe, but it takes a lot to get me to do something against my own standards. I don't even feel too strongly about voting the "wrong" way, but I feel strongly enough about it not to be easily bribed. Though I fully realize that I'd sell my vote for an unreasonable sum of money, like a million - of course, it would also effectively make me not care about whatever happens at the election.Solver, WePlayCiv Co-Administrator
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Depends on the situation. If someone wants to buy my vote for something I wouldn't like at all the price would be in the millions. On the other hand if it was for something where I don't believe it would make much of a difference if the winner of the vote is #1 or #2, then they could get it cheap ($50-100)This space is empty... or is it?Comment
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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
$5. It's not like it would matter anyway.THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTFComment
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Like Solver I would definately sell my vote for an unreasonably high sum of money.Comment
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I don't really need more money (though more is always welcome!), so the offer would have to be huge for me to consider it.
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Sell my vote?!
No thank you! 
How would I explain it to those who left their bloody footprints in the snows of Valley Forge?
To those who left their crumpled bodies on the fields at Fredericksburg?
To those floating in the blood-red ocean off of Omaha Beach?
No thank you!
How could I explain in to the roasted bodies in the burned-out tanks in the Kaiserine Pass?
To the shattered bodies laying on the deck of the Bonhomme Richard?
To those who died of exposure in the bellies of British prison ships?
To those who dies of hunger, thirst and brutality on the Bataan Death March?
I did not pay for my right to vote. They did. And not all the money in all the banks in all the world can ever repay them.Comment
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Nice sentiment, Zkrib, but imagine for a moment that you were truely poor. And somebody offered you a million bucks. Remember, you're living in poverty. You would turn it down?
It's easy for me in my present circumstances to agree with your post and say "no, never!" I want to say that. But I thought about it, and given the right circumstances I'd have my price. Vote, or feed your family?
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Or even "Vote (so that the margin of victory/defeat is 1,234,656 rather than 1,234,655), or enjoy a candy bar?"Originally posted by Arrian
Vote, or feed your family?THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTFComment
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I don't take it that far. But then I can afford to just go buy a candy bar. :shrug:
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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How much poorer would I be if I sold my heritage for a few bucks?Originally posted by Arrian
Nice sentiment, Zkrib, but imagine for a moment that you were truely poor. And somebody offered you a million bucks. Remember, you're living in poverty. You would turn it down?Comment
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You're telling me that your "heritage" as you term it is more important to you than (in my hypothetical) feeding your family?
I posit that those who reject the concept out of hand do so in part because they do not want for money. Hey - my initial reaction was the same as yours. But then I thought about it some more.
You probably will never know what you would do if push came to shove, but I suspect that given the right circumstances, your "heritage" would cease to be priceless.
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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as i live in one of the safest labour seats in the country, my vote really doesn't matter. on the other hand i'm doing pretty well, so anyone wanting to buy my vote would have to make it worth my while.
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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That's a false choice. If I needed to feed my family, there is food stamps, there are charities, there is even...ulp...work.
Remember the old joke of the old, ugly billionaire and the young, beautiful woman. He asks, "Would you sleep with me for $20,000,000?" "Sure," she says. He asks, "Would you sleep with me for $20." "Of course not!" she snaps, "What kind of girl do you think I am?!" "We know that," he replies, "and now we're just dickering over the price."Comment
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