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The people who voted for Trump (Biden) should not be blamed, because they already did what they could - they voted for Trump (Biden). It’s not like they could have voted “harder”.

That’s complete nonsense. You literally just said, “No one argues with the fact that this includes the ones who actually voted” and here you are arguing with the fact that the people who actually voted for a candidate are included in those responsible for getting a candidate elected. Which is it?

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I make a distinction between “responsibility” and “blame”:

  • Responsibility is when your choices have contributed to the outcome.
  • Blame is a responsibility for a bad thing.

If the candidate you supported won, you share in the responsibility for it - but not in the blame because from your point of view there is no blame because it’s not a bad thing.

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That’s still nonsense, the point of view doesn’t matter. If I rob a gas station then I’m still the person to blame for the gas station being robbed, regardless of whether it was a good thing or not from my point of view. That’s simply not what the word means.

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That kind of blame is useless when trying to prevent gas station robberies. You need to blame the robbery on something the people who don’t want the station to be robbed could have done different, so that they could do it differently next time. Putting the blame on the robber, in this context, won’t do any good - the robber know exactly what they could have done to prevent the robbery (which is quite simple - just refrain from doing it) , but they won’t do it because they want to rob the store.

Let’s pretend, just for a moment, that the point of the public discussion of the elections is to try and affect their results. You conclude the if Trump gets elected, it’ll be the fault of the people who voted for Trump. So you go to Trump voters and try to convince them that if Trump gets elected it’d be their fault but they can change that if they act now and refrain from voting.

Say you’ve managed to convince them that this is the case. Will it affect their behavior? Will they say “I was going to vote for Trump because I want him as president, but now I realize that this would mean it’s my fault he gets elected so maybe I shouldn’t”?

On the other hand, if you manage to convince a non voter on Biden’s side that it’d be their fault if they don’t vote and Trump gets elected - that’s potentially another vote for Biden, and enough of these can change the outcome.

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