Doctor Who: 10 Dubious Morals That Series 8 Taught Us

5. Voting Is A Waste of Time

Democracy, the programme has always told us, is important. For decades fans have been shown time and time again how tyranny of the masses is intrinsically wrong, how important it is that people have the ability to decide their own fate and how fundamentally crucial it is to consider other people's opinions. Unless you're Clara of course, in which case you go to all the trouble of arranging a global referendum on whether or not to kill the moon, wait for the voting, tabulate the results and then ignore all that and do whatever the hell you want to do anyway. Obviously, with the benefit of hindsight (or as the Doctor could have told them from the beginning had he but bothered to stay), everything works out just fine. The moon creature lives, dumps out an improbably sized replacement moon and the Earth is safe. Everybody lives. That said, the fact still remains. If you're just going to ignore the results, don't bother taking the vote in the first place. This is why participation in representative democracy is on the decline, people.