The only decent argument for not letting kids vote is that their brains are simply not fully enough developed to handle the crushing disappointment
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You mean other than their lack of legal agency?
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That's just rephrasing my question
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protection against allowing an under-informed, immature mass of people from being cynically mobilized and used to elect some sort of incompetent populist manipulator, I think, right?
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I was going to say “Kids Choice Awards winners”, but I just checked and kids have excellent taste
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I suppose because a child’s mind hasn’t matured enough to fully comprehend complex problems and potential solutions. But then again, how many adults are just like that. I see your point.
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No. It seems a logical starting age would be the age they can work or drive a car unsupervised. 15 ~ 16 makes perfect sense to me.
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in general we don't hold kids legally responsible for their actions, so voting would be weird (this argument breaks), and a test to allow them to prove they're responsible enough would take on a definite feeling of the literacy tests African Americans had to take under Jim Crow.
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Kid prisoners first!
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Maybe it can be tied to the lowest legal age of marriage in a US state at any given time.
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