Reply #170: Hold, back up one [View All]

[Walt Starr]

Because "to do no harm" means at times weighing harm. Leaving Bush in office would cause greater harm than voting for Lieberman would.

You don't know that. You don't know that things won't actually be worse under Lieberman. In my judgement, things COULD be worse under an unknown evil than under the known evil. We know what to expect with the known, we do not know what to expect with the unknown. Looking at Lieberman's hawkish stances, he could be responsible for more deaths than Bush very easily over the next four years.

The rede is not applicable to voting or not voting. If it were the case, you'd see a lot more Pagans voting than do.