Geoffrey Miller on Twitter: "Should kids be allowed to vote? Here's my short, half-baked, half-serious essay from ten years ago, arguing that people aged 12+ should have the vote, and that moms should be able to cast votes by proxy for all the kids they have under age 12. https://t.co/NecSHm7t0b… https://t.co/Ih7MqebrUf"

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Should kids be allowed to vote? Here's my short, half-baked, half-serious essay from ten years ago, arguing that people aged 12+ should have the vote, and that moms should be able to cast votes by proxy for all the kids they have under age 12. https://www.primalpoly.com/s/2008-voting-by-kids.docx …pic.twitter.com/eLpZnCDPUw

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1. Blake Isaacs‏ @blisaacs1 30 Jun 2018
  
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  And children have so many more years to live with the consequences of their votes than their grandparents do. A 16 year old should have more political power than a 95 year old.
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1. Kait ‏ @kate_baconly 2 Jul 2018
  
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  There was a short Logical Reasoning problem on my latest LSAT practice test about this issue...
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1. Mark Reaume‏ @ReaumeMark 30 Jun 2018
  
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  Only people between 30-49 should be able to vote.
  
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1. Grey Area‏ @tardomatic 1 Jul 2018
  
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  A few years ago I saw employees of a group home taking people with clear cognitive disabilities to my polling place, and literally voting for them. I was a bit disturbed by this, frankly.
  
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1. Autisto Retardi‏ @psykokirurgen 30 Jun 2018
  
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  Lol you want arab and mexican families to rule the country?
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1. Binx‏ @clakklaa 30 Jun 2018
  
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  Controversial! In a good way! Which is precisely why I enjoy your tweets & books.
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1. Grey Area‏ @tardomatic 1 Jul 2018
  
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  If voting were to be weighted this way (which is not unreasonable), then shouldn't it also be weighted by the net taxes actually paid as well? Someone raising 5 kids has a set of interests 6X a single person, but so does someone paying 6X the taxes.
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