Apathy Research Paper
How Apathy Can Affect a Society Citizens in a democracy attempt to educate themselves and try to be involved with the decisions the government makes. In being in a democracy, citizens are given the opportunity to express their position on issues by voting for representatives that posses the same ideological background that clearly reflects his or her stance on issues. Having access to these rights and freedoms was advocated by Voltaire, a French philosopher during the enlightenment period. Voltaire stood up to the great power of the church and criticized the nobles for their torture and persecution of citizens who disagreed with the church's ideas. The source presented provides a perspective, regarding the public welfare, that the decreasement
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For example a very important referendum just happened last June in the United Kingdom, known as Brexit. Brexit was an idea that was proposed by United Kingdom's former Prime Minister, David Cameron. Cameron proposed before the referendum happened that if he was re elected to serve as prime minister for the UK he would have a nationwide referendum in regards to leaving the European Union. After the referendum results had been collective it displayed that 52% of the citizens who actually voted, voted to leave the EU, and the other 48% voted to remain apart of the EU. There was 2 factors that led to the result of the referendum. The first being that the citizens were extremely uneducated about the topic. Having a majority can be a very important feature in democracy. It gives power to the majority that can either be used correctly by having consideration of the minority, or it can be used negatively in which results in an unstoppable power, which can also be known as the tyranny of the majority. The United Kingdom citizens were extremely apathetic when it came to knowing the background knowledge of the referendum itself. In fact according to google, “What is the EU?” was the second most searched term after the referendum. This means that the citizens didn’t even know what they were voting for, which is extremely apathetic. The second factor that shaped the result of the referendum was the percentage of eligible voters that actually came out to vote on the referendum was only 72%. If the minority of eligible voters didn’t act apathetic about the situation there could have been a different result from the
For example a very important referendum just happened last June in the United Kingdom, known as Brexit. Brexit was an idea that was proposed by United Kingdom's former Prime Minister, David Cameron. Cameron proposed before the referendum happened that if he was re elected to serve as prime minister for the UK he would have a nationwide referendum in regards to leaving the European Union. After the referendum results had been collective it displayed that 52% of the citizens who actually voted, voted to leave the EU, and the other 48% voted to remain apart of the EU. There was 2 factors that led to the result of the referendum. The first being that the citizens were extremely uneducated about the topic. Having a majority can be a very important feature in democracy. It gives power to the majority that can either be used correctly by having consideration of the minority, or it can be used negatively in which results in an unstoppable power, which can also be known as the tyranny of the majority. The United Kingdom citizens were extremely apathetic when it came to knowing the background knowledge of the referendum itself. In fact according to google, “What is the EU?” was the second most searched term after the referendum. This means that the citizens didn’t even know what they were voting for, which is extremely apathetic. The second factor that shaped the result of the referendum was the percentage of eligible voters that actually came out to vote on the referendum was only 72%. If the minority of eligible voters didn’t act apathetic about the situation there could have been a different result from the