Seven bad, lazy reasons to vote on May 5

There is one and only one supreme and luminous reason for exercising your right to vote. But the rotten ones are numerous. Here are seven bad reasons for voting on May 5:

# It’s your civic duty.

# Our ancestors fought and died for the right to vote.

# Governments need a mandate from voters.

# Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

# If you don’t vote, you can’t complain.

# Unless you vote you are lazy/apathetic/feeble/dim.

# Voting is easy these days. You can do it by post.

More here. It's an interesting article with a few different ideas, even though it's based on thinking in the U.K.