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Originally Posted by ObieX
People die for a lot of reasons.
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I would like to take this brief moment to thank the men and women who died so that I was able to cast a ballot today. I am very appreciative of the benefits I receive from living in a republic.
I guess if I haven't yet convinced the reader that voting is important... well, every time you don't vote, you increase the influence of my vote, so I'll stop complaining now... 
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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