Once they have the right to hold referendums, people will be moved to study issues carefully, weigh the pros and cons and make decisions whose consequences they will be responsible for themselves. This process will evolve to the point where their sense of alienation from government will significantly diminish, where they will no longer feel like "dogs barking after a fire engine."
擁有公投的權利後，民眾不論對自己所在的社區，乃至對國家的重大議題，都將更有誘因去詳細瞭解、權衡利弊並作出「自作自受」的抉擇，以往「何必狗吠火車？」