Should we franchise the right to vote to sixteen year old?

SW-User · 2024-07-06T02:15:00-04:00

Politics - Should we franchise the right to vote to sixteen year old? The argument for it is that they... (86 replies).

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Extend to franchise.

Leave things as they are.

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The argument for it is that they will be twenty one by the time the governments term is finished, and the future belongs to them.

If the right to vote is given to octogenarians whose time is nearly past, so should those who hold the future.

This may encourage people to vote throughout their lives. OK, they may make some wrong decisions, lack maturity, but then again di t we all.

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NoThanksLeon · M

Making a 16-year-old an adult is liberal step one at legalizing pedophilia. I predicted this in some form 20 years ago. Liberal reasoning: If they are old enough to drive. they are old enough to vote. If they are old enough to vote, they are old enough to....

If 16-year-olds are given the right to vote, watch how quickly Democrats offer their first two years of college free to buy their vote. A 16-year-old is like a young trout striking at a pretty, shiny, glittering spinner with two treble hooks in it.

Liberals get what they want, drop by drop, over generations of time.

SW-User

@NoThanksLeon Allowing people to take responsibility for theirs actions can only be a good thing. Surely we want responsible citizens.

NoThanksLeon · M

@SW-User Making a 16-year-old an adult is liberal step one at legalizing pedophilia.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@NoThanksLeon The age of consent for penetrative sex in the UK is already 16, mainly to avoid criminalising young people from following their natural urges. This does not give licence for older people to have sex with teenagers. Society and social responsibility are far more than the sum of the laws.

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SW-User

@Patriot96 I can’t see how your abusive remark contributes to the debate.

NoThanksLeon · M

@SunshineGirl You are missing my point. I said it is step ONE to legalizing pedophilia. Liberals get what they want in America drop by drop over long periods of time. Today it's giving a 16-year -old the right to vote. Then if 16, 10 years later why not 14? Then another 15 or 20 years let's make it age12. All under the guise of voting while making them adults with 'other' adult privileges. Liberal deviance is a process.

SW-User

@NoThanksLeon In England they teach social issues and young people are encouraged to make a voice in society..

My point is that they will be 21 by the end of the Parliament, before they can have their say. That’s is if an election is called when they are sixteen.

Again in England, turn out is very small, then people complain and who gets in. If people vote in their late teams, they might, just might, continue throughout their lives.

And a third point has emerged, when does maturity set in to make a balanced decision. Clearly most people answering this post think not as early as sixteen.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@NoThanksLeon That's a complete non sequitur. Expanding the franchise gives young people who are already old enough to work fulltime, pay taxes and have sexual relationships, a voice in their country's affairs. In the UK it does not alter the age of consent or give licence for them to be assaulted.

When the franchise was extended to women and men without property (one of the great liberal achievements), do you imagine this somehow gave encouragement to others to sexually molest them?

NoThanksLeon · M

@SunshineGirl The women and men whom the franchise was extended to were not 16.