Protest!Sit-ins. Walk-outs. Smashing up the headquarters of a major political party. Chaining yourself to the railings outside your local sweet shop because they changed Marathons to Snickers. How have you stuck it to The Man?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 12:24)
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protest is only irrationalif you assume that it's irrational to be anything other than completely self interested. no?
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tickle I was away, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 16:09,
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Not at allBut *if* your protest won't have any impact on the outcome, then rational self-interest says there's no point to it. That's why getting people to protest is hard. You have to persuade them that they *can* make a difference, which is worth the personal cost. And the problem of the shared benefit is hard to overcome too.
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flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 16:14,
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Don't you HAVE to be self interested to protest?Don't people generally only protest against something when it's going to adversely affect them?
I find it hard to believe there are groups of people out there who go and protest against stuff that won't or can't affect them....
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