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Values are determined through the process of practical reasoning when one reflects upon a course of action and ultimately chooses whether or not to endorse it. This endorsement is what creates value.

Korsgaard

(Korsgaard, Christine.  November 1996. Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. PhD in Philosophy From Harvard. The Authority of Reflection. The Sources of Normativity: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Cambridge University.)
But the human mind is self-conscious
AND
 cannot commit itself or go forward.

Korsgaard 2

Korsgaard, Christine. 2011. Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. PhD in Philosophy From Harvard. Valuing our Humanity. Harvard University
This question brings us back to the issues with
AND
nor that is prizeworthy to have a moral nature? 

Compulsory Voting disrespects autonomy by disrespecting people's capabilities for rational thought

Lever,

Annabelle Lever, Associate Professor of Normative Political Theory, University of Geneva, Switzerland. "Compulsory voting: a critical perspective" 2009
People are not always good judges
AND
be good for them

Abstention is not the same thing as not turning out.

Lever2,

Annabelle Lever, Associate Professor of Normative Political Theory, University of Geneva, Switzerland. "Compulsory voting: a critical perspective" 2009
Take, for instance, the option
AND
‘none of the above’.

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WEST  
(Robin West. "Rights, Capabilities, and the Good Society." Fordham Law Review Vol. 69 Issue

LOCKE
(John Locke, 1690. “Second Treatise on Government CHAP. IX., Of the Ends of Political Society and Government”) Sec.131.

CP TEXT: Developing countries should develop natural resources and distribute the revenues in the form of direct dividends to citizens.

Todd Moss, Center for Global Development. “Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers”. Working Paper 237, January 2011

Devarajan and Giugale (2011Shanta and Marcelo , chief economist of the World Bank's Africa region. Marcelo Giugale is director for economic policy and poverty reduction programmes for Africa at the World Bank, “How Africa can extract big benefits for everyone from natural resources”

WYLER 08
Liana Sun Wyler, August 28, 2008 Analyst in International Crime and Narcotics Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division. “Weak and Failing States: Evolving Security Threats and U.S. Policy” Congressional Research Service

KATEB 92
George, 1992 The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture, “Thinking About Human Extinction (1): Nuclear Weapons and Individual Rights,” p. 111-112

SPINA 2K
Stephanie Urso Spina, Ph.D. Candidate in Social/Personality Psychology at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. “Smoke and Mirrors: The Hidden Context of Violence in Schools and Society