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ML light posted an update 7 years, 1 month ago
I bring this question to the most rational community I know: Giza. I was debating a young friend of mine about the voting age—this was regarding the potential for lowering the voting age to 16– I stated one shouldn’t be able to vote until they were old enough to be President (I realize this may be a bit extreme). My main point of rational was that one’s brain isn’t fully developed till about the age of 26, and even at this age one is still (generally) quite naive, especially considering today’s “educated” youth. My young friend was dumbfounded by my position, and even I left the conversation wondering if I was way out of my mind on this…. thoughts?
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Ask him if he would be willing to accept being condemned to capital punishment or life imprisonment by a jury formed by his “peers”….
of course he will.. he’s been conditionned to think that he’s entitled to be judged by peers.. but he’ll have no idea of what consequence is.
In this day and age (and madness) .. I wouldn’t be surprised if voting was made compulsory for anyone 2 – 25 years of age and illegal for anyone over 30 ..
too old to vote…. now that’s scary!