voting at sixteen years old

[billium]

Do you think you were mature enough to vote when you were sixteen years old?

Ref: Scottish referendum.

For myself no and also no interest in politics at that age.
Some may argue that if one is old enough to kill (military service) and old enough to tax, then one should be old enough to vote.

[dmitchell]

I was immature enough.
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Your argument is invalid.

[Mardok45]

I'm 23 and I'm still not mature enough.

[John-Boy]

[John-Boy]

[aidanjt]

It doesn't matter how immature you are. Even if you want to vote for Mr Blobby, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. It would probably be a better vote than the mainstream majority. And like you said, if you're old enough to pay taxes and shoot at brown people, you're old enough to vote.
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[energyman76b]

16 year olds are childs.

Fornicating, drunken, stupid childs.

The last person being allowed to vote should be a 16 year old. They are all fucking idiots.

In fact, I think the age should be raised to 30. 30 year olds who served their countries (males) or have at least 2 childs (women). Everybody else: shut up you lazy fucks.
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[aidanjt]

[energyman76b]

[aidanjt]

[energyman76b]

[aidanjt]

[BonezTheGoon]

No I wasn't mature enough that I think my vote should have counted. I had essentially no vested interest in the system, so I don't think I had any business in directing it.
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[aidanjt]

[Old School]

18 is too young.
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[Boris27]

No. The 16 year old me wasn't capable to vote properly.
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[BonezTheGoon]

[pjp]

Eliminate age as a requirement and implement a test.
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In Loving Memory
1787 - 2008

[sikpuppy]

[pjp]

So being informed is a bad measure of eligibility, but an arbitrary age is perfectly OK⸮
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In Loving Memory
1787 - 2008

[Dominique_71]

The age have nothing to do with maturity. Somme peoples will be mature at 16, some other will never be mature, even not at 100.

I don't even think that to vote for one of a gang of morons is a sign of maturity. Politician are not solving problems, they are a part of the problems, and it is why we pay them with the taxes : to keep things as they are and let the worst of us rule the world.

Nor capitalism or marxism is the solution. Both are equally wrong with their ways of life. Capitalism is about exploitation of all of us and every thing by all of us, marxism about fight of all of us against all of us and every thing, when the rule should be about universal respect of all of us and every thing. No one single politician want to change this mess. And not the peoples that vote for them either, they are the same than the ones that voted for a moron like Hitler, they prefer false pseudo-religious promises instead of facts and reality.
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[tylerwylie]

lol
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[genstorm]

I was actually quite interested in politics from an early age, however at 16, what I thought of being my own opinion, actually was quite along the lines of my parents. Surprisingly, that seems to be part of the reasoning by the 'vote with 16' crowd: give at least some counterbalance to the majority that is increasingly consisting of old farts.
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[Dominique_71]

[BonezTheGoon]