where one does not believe 16-year olds are yet mentally capable of making rational decisions concerning their own health, the argument they *should however* be allowed to vote is explicitly a desire for mentally incapable voters
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there is no good-faith argument for extending 16-year olds the right to vote without concurrently the argument for extending 16-year olds the rights to drive, smoke, drink, gamble, join the military, get married and have sex (with men and women of any legal age)
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An underrated argument against lowering the voting age in the US is the gross way Get Out the Vote campaigns would inevitably be extended to target 16 years olds.
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It'd be good to extend basic rights regarding personal choices to everyone else who already can vote too.
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The prefrontal cortex doesn’t mature until around 25 years, if we change anything, it certainly shouldn’t be getting any further from 25.
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The past is full of 16yos doing more adult stuff than many adults today. Should we also take voting rights from people with brain differences of 18+? How do our expectations of youth form their nature? Should they be given the chance to vote on their right to OPs egs?
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When do their interests in preventing ecocide outweigh the risks of their decisions about their own health? Isn’t it their impulsive nature and not their deliberative that seems to worry us?
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