The PM said: “If you can work, if you can pay tax, if you can serve in your armed forces, then you ought to be able to vote.”
What do you think is the best age to allow for voting. — I like sushi
When you have taken part in some social scheme? — I like sushi
What do you think. — I like sushi
I would have to disagree with this sentiment as the young are easily influenced and so are more likely to fall prey to populist ideologies. — I like sushi
It's certainly a leftwards slant. Could it be that all of our values come from our heart, and our heart hardens with age? — Down The Rabbit Hole
A more viable system for me would be a gradual increase in influence with age and experience. I am not completely against a 16 yr old voting, but I do not think their vote should weigh in the same as someone my age. — I like sushi
16 just sounds awfully young to vote or to serve in the military. — Hanover
Your suggestions are more problematic because they impose potential voting tests, enfranchising only those that meet certain criteria beyond just age and citizenship. — Hanover
I would have to disagree with this sentiment as the young are easily influenced and so are more likely to fall prey to populist ideologies.
All in all, I think education can help people of all ages to acquire a better perspective from which to vote according to their beliefs, desires and needs. — I like sushi
education is not what creates better people and better voters — Hanover
. . . but just states that if society already treats 16 year olds as adults for other purposes, then to be consistent, they should also be allowed to vote. — Hanover
Voting should be restricted to legally competent adults. — LuckyR
What about dumb adults, or sheeple?Voting should be restricted to legally competent adults.
That's been the classic arguments against democracy since the Athenian expedition to Sicily 415-413 BCE. Plato builds a political philosophy around it.If we create a poltical body that is increasingly dependent upon the short-term whim of inexperienced minds - who are biologically driven by a myopic perspective - then I fear for the long-term future. — I like sushi
Yes. People do seem to focus on the fact that there has not been a world war since 1944. Whether it is appropriate, on that ground, to call the last 80 years a period of relative harmony and peace is not obvious to me. But I do agree that we seem to be in a particularly critical and unstable time. We live interesting times, unfortunately.Either way, our intuitions will lead us on more than our knowledge. When they meet each other then we have a period of relative harmony and peace (like now). — I like sushi
If I've got it right, the prefrontal cortex doesn't stop developing until around 25. So that ship sailed long, long ago.The prefrontal cortex needs to develop. This is not something we can simply dismiss. — I like sushi
Enough said, I think.Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.… — "Churchill
Quite. I can't see that they will wreck the overall result.Let them vote it'll be good for them. — fdrake
If I've got it right, the prefrontal cortex doesn't stop developing until around 25. So that ship sailed long, long ago. — Ludwig V
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