NYU Students Prove Their Stupidity by Giving up the Right to Vote for an iPod
In a grand act of stupidity, NYU students have said they’d give up their right to vote in next year’s elections of they had free tuition, a million dollars, or an iPod.
Two-thirds say they’ll do it for a year’s tuition. Only 20 percent said they’d exchange their vote for an iPod touch…And half said they’d give up the right to vote forever for $1 million.
Only 20 percent? That’s one fifth of the student population. When correlated to the general population of America, that’s a huge chunk of people who, quite frankly, don’t give a fuck about politics. They simply would rather have their instant gratification of an iPod or given free schooling, which, won’t help them if someone they didn’t elect decided to screw over their future professions.
But they also overwhelmingly lauded the importance of voting. Ninety percent of the students who said they’d give up their vote for the money also said they consider voting “very important” or “somewhat important”; only 10 percent said it was “not important.” Also, 70.5 percent said they believe that one vote can make a difference — including 70 percent of the students who said they’d give up their vote for free tuition.
Huh? How can these same students say they’d give up their rights for a momentary pleasure, yet then turn around and say that voting is very important? They’ll gladly take a wad of cash but still think voting is vital?
These students really need a clue about life. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. It just doesn’t work that way. A few students, however, do get it, and wouldn’t give up their right to vote for anything.
“I would be reversing history — a lot of people fought so that every citizen could be enfranchised,” said a female in her second year at the Stern School of Business.
One CAS junior went even further, writing that “anyone who’d sell his lifelong right to vote should be deported.”
Too bad most of these students have spent their time at NYU learning that their freedoms aren’t worth that much and that their lives are going to be spent in service to others, with little chance of getting ahead. That’s okay though, they’ll have a shiny trinket to play with while they whittle away the days of their lives.
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