选举投票并不很困难但也并不是没有代价 Casting a vote is not very difficult but not without cost.
它需要一些时间以及事前的思考 It requires some time and a minimal amount of prior thought.
但是任何一个选民的选票 Yet the likelihood
成为决定性一票的可能性微不足道 that any particular person's vote will be decisive is negligible.
于是便产生了人们究竟为什么要投票的疑问 And that raises the question why people vote at all.
如果我们孤立地看 任何人的投票都没什么用 It seemed not to be rational but the people vote at all
可人们还是要投票 这本身就是一个矛盾 is only a paradox if we see them at isolated individuals.
然而选民并不是 However, voters do not cast their vote
为了获得某种 in the expectation of some kind of individual gain
个人的利益而投票 that they otherwise wouldn't have received,
而是因为他们意识到如果其所属团体中的人 but rather, because they realize that the groups they belong to
尽可能多地参与进来 will collectively benefit
他们将会共同地从中获益 if as many of their members participate as possible.
投票的行为终究还是合理的 The act of voting is rational after all
它表明了选民是被集体激发的 and it shows that voters are socially motivated
而非个人的积极性使然 rather than individually.
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个体化 抱歉 说错了 Individualized, sorry, this goes wrong.
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可恶 Damn it.
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