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Uh, no - this is a completely different situation. Whereas gay marriage has little to no effect on most Americans' lives, the results of this vote will affect each and every Greek citizen for years (decades?) to come.

Moving abroad (assuming that option is available to you) might simply be the rational thing to do in such a case.

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The original commenter already responded to this post, but I'm pretty sure he was making fun of the fact that someone was pissed about the United States allowing gay marriages, and so the solution for them was somehow moving to Canada -where they've allowed gay marriages for much longer.

Basically, I don't like what they're doing here so I'm gonna move to someplace where they're doing it worse (a little backasswards in thinking, maybe even ignorance). This woman would likely move to elsewhere in the Eurozone, or another country with similar banking/economics strategies.

True I should have been more specific about what I saw as the connection. This woman, and I presume many other people, seem to want credit for giving up. I'm not really speaking as to the rationality of the sentiment, just noting that giving up doesn't impress me much.

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