Responsibility? Sure, I'm down with that. Which is why I'd rather up the voting age when people actually get responsible.
But there is absolutely no correlation between fighting in a war (or getting drafted) and making good decisions at the voting booth. Again, if it was, then all seniors need to be denied the right to vote.
That doesn't make any sense. The elderly can still be drafted. They just typically aren't because why would you draft an 80-year-old when you can draft a physically fit and healthy 18-year-old?
I'm saying that if there is some type of correlation between voting and going to war, then by that logic everyone who can't go to war should be denied the right to vote.
its part history dude, of nearly all countries. the right to vote was tied to responsibility/service.
Responsibility? Sure, I'm down with that. Which is why I'd rather up the voting age when people actually get responsible.
But there is absolutely no correlation between fighting in a war (or getting drafted) and making good decisions at the voting booth. Again, if it was, then all seniors need to be denied the right to vote.
That doesn't make any sense. The elderly can still be drafted. They just typically aren't because why would you draft an 80-year-old when you can draft a physically fit and healthy 18-year-old?
why? if they also had to sign up for the draft? what about people born cripples who cant serve?
im for voter reform as in denying voting rights to welfare recipients and dual citizens and what not.
Read my post again.
I'm saying that if there is some type of correlation between voting and going to war, then by that logic everyone who can't go to war should be denied the right to vote.
you mentioned seniors specifically.
that is why i mentioned born cripples.