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If you've got a real argument to make, by all means, make it. Your anger does not magically "make it so".

It's still a vote, and votes don't require reasons, and shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. There's a growing chorus of those who are fed up with rules for thee but not for me.

An emotional vote with no rationale should indeed be dismissed out of hand.

We're a society built by thought and good-will engagement. We won't get out of our "rules for thee" with less thought and less good-will engagement.

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