The difference: "Thou shalt not kill" is a sweeping statement that is entrenched in our consciousness so that we as people on this planet can survive with some modicum of civility. Voting, in comparison, is a more recent human construct that is not necessarily a widely held belief. Nation states have survived for centuries without it.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-11-02 09:48 am (UTC)