Is the decision to vote or not to vote a moral decision?.
All throughout life one has been told that they have decisions to make that can affect everyone in society, like voting. In the 2000 presidential election 92 million people decided not to vote and 111 million people did vote (US Census Bureau). The numbers are close for the people who do vote and do not vote which says there are a lot backing both decisions. When people choose to vote or not to vote, is that a moral decision or are people just exercising their constructional given rights. In order to answer this question, one has to know what makes up morality. According to "Business Ethics, by Joseph Desjardins", Morality is determined by examining our principles and rules that set forth the ideas of how one might act. He also said that the basic question of morality is "How should I live my life?". In a nutshell, morality is the idea of being educated about the basic set of values or virtues instilled in yourself and how you act on those values.
So, if that concept is applied to the idea of voting one might imply that voting is actually a moral decision based on the fact that the person might believe they can make that difference by voting toward their virtues. The whole idea of voting for you favorite candidate would alter the next four years of you life and many others also in a way of new government programs that were created my the candidate's own virtues and morality. Along the thoughts of voting, it could be a moral decision in the sense that one votes because they believe in that candidate and they want to see the candidate's ideas put into action. .
On the other side of the issue, people feel that it is there right to vote and they vote to exercise their right. For an example the people who vote because they are associated with the same party. They feel as though it is like an obligation to support their party.
