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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Come on.
Do you believe children should vote? If not, there has to be an entry point. 18 works, if the voting public wants to move that line to 21, or 16, or 12, or whatever, that changes nothing. Children aren't given the right to vote until they achieve a certain age. Then they have it for life.
Trying to equate that to removing the right to vote, is a brutally false equivalency.
Should we remove the right to vote for people with mental health issues?
Please tell me where we should draw the lines on restricting freedoms.
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Not really sure what you're talking about, my point was that voting is already restricted based on age. You can argue how valid age-based restrictions are, but comparing it to restrictions based on mental health is wonky.
Isn't your post, suggesting you don't care if they move it to 21 (thus removing the right to vote for people 18, 19, or 20) just the same as some arbitrary number in the 80s or 90s? You don't care if they remove it from young people, but you find it unconscionable to remove it from very older people? That doesn't make sense.
I think it's valid that people who will experience the majority of an upcoming presidential term as tax-paying adults should be able to vote.