Might benefit you to read the flames you got, before taking them as personal affronts. Critiques are a good teaching method.
Fair enough. And you might also learn from the very, very few people on FR who are openly against voting.
Here is a thought experiment. No need to respond, just think about it. Take a hard look at every Federal election since 1984. See if there is even one where the results would be markedly different for us as a nation if the other candidate won. Or if the other so-called party won.
Would the size or scope of government be significantly different? Would we be any less monitored? Would infanticide be any less legal? If you truly believe that the answers to any of those questions are YES then by gosh, you absolutely should vote.
If not, then be forewarned: you’re already on the road to heresy.