Are you the oppressed or the oppressor Akanthinos — René Descartes
You aren't alone MP, Immanual Kant - the greatest of the Enlightenment era's philosophers - firmly believed that women should never be allowed to vote; basically because - (and there's no way to put this diplomatically, I'm afraid) - he felt that they were just too stupid (irrational) ! :wink: Actually quite a few great philosophers would have run foul of the "Mod Squad" and been banned from this forum for sexism if it had have been operating in their time, like Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kant, Aristotle ... (?!) :gasp: — Dachshund
I cannot understand why such persons should be granted the right to vote. What possible arguments could there be for extending suffrage to adults who lack a normal capacity for rational thought? — Dachshund
there are considerable measures and clinical techniques that can ascertain their decision-making process and provide suitable methods to instruct and educate so that they can make informed choices and decisions. — TimeLine
People with an IQ lower than 125 shouldn't be allowed to vote. Period. They contribute nothing to society, have no awareness of what's going on around them, and can't form the most meagre of insights about what effects them. — fdrake
I take it you voted for "crooked Hillary", the crazy feminist, Sapientia ? Now that's what I call retarded ! (or was it "Red Bernie", the dotty old clown who still doesn't realise why the Berlin Wall was pulled down in 1989)
Either way, it provides a good case for why, IMO, Americans should have to pass a mandatory general mental competence test before they are granted the right to vote.
Regards
Dachshund — Dachshund
The irony did have a purpose, it was an attempt to get anyone who thought removing voting rights from the disabled, or making them conditional, to think of themselves as the other - subject to the restrictions. Some of the questions on that literacy test are, ironically, very poorly worded. — fdrake
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