Is Voting Morally Right Essay

Is voting morally right or is it just something we are conditioned to do by society? Many people have different opinions on this question, and whenever election time arrives arguments tend to flare up. Many of us are raised to believe once we are old enough we have to vote in the election or we aren’t truly good, upstanding citizens of society. In essence, we are bullied by our elders into believing we have to vote to be good people. If it is, as they claim, so moral for a person to vote, then why is it in the past election there were “some 46.9 million Americans [whom] did not cast a ballot in the election?” (Forrester) This raises suspicion in some, maybe it isn’t such a pressing burden to vote as we may think. Questioning the morality of voting in respect to the social contract theory and the ethics of care will lead to a more accurate assessment regarding our supposed obligation to vote. First, think about the social contract theory. The social contract theory states that everyone in society is participating in a contract with everyone else in society. In a sense morality only exists if we follow the rules set by our government and society, if the rules are broken you are breaking the contract and in this situation, as Hobbes claims, what …show more content…
Voting isn’t everything that matters during an election, there is more that needs to be thought about than just who you mark on the ballot. To those 46.9 million Americans who didn’t vote in the past election, now they know they can stand tall, because as long as they were staying true to their views, then their actions were justified. Just because somebody was raised to believe something doesn’t mean they have to continue believing it as they grow up. In the end, if somebody doesn’t vote, it doesn’t make their actions any less