We should move the voting age to 16.
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getting youth engaged in civics is a great idea, but i’m skeptical of lowering the voting age. the prefrontal cortex of the brain (which is involved in processing consequence and rational decision making) isn’t fully developed until age 25 or so.
Should we then raise the age of military service to 25? How about adult prison sentences?
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I agree with Mr King, attempting to approach this so abstractly takes the context away from the reality that they are already subject to political mechanisms, without their formal political agency
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that’s true! and it sucks. but if that’s the logic, why 16 then? it applies to anyone under 18. whereas at 18 they’re legally independent adults and have (usually) finished high school/basic civics edu.
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imo, as a baseline, emancipated minors should have full citizenship. but for 16 as a general case, I made some replies earlier in a diff sub-thread, but tl;dr they’re being targeted directly by policy that permanently &/or directly affects their liveshttps://twitter.com/brobuntu/status/971172587815411712?s=21 …
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I could get behind this. Mandatory civil service, after free college. But 16yo vote... Not so much.
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i think it’s worth factoring in to how we think about laws and policies that affect young people. but my overall point is that there needs to be a very compelling reason to lower it.
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we lowered it to 18 in the 70s during Vietnam, because political decisions then were killing people of those age groups without their voice or representation;
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if high schools are becoming war zones for the drug war & firearm debates it makes sense for the voices of those materially affected to be brought into the fold
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