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I know there is another thread about this topic currently active, but I wanted to add a poll. So please allow this thread to remain, or add a poll to the other thread. Thanks
Straw poll, what do you think?
Straw poll, what do you think?
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63No voting age3.17%210-130.00%014-1512.70%816-1715.87%101852.38%3319-213.17%222+9.52%6No voting age, since no one should vote. Only bananas3.17%2Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
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18-20 years...
maybe 19Que l’Univers n’est qu’un défaut dans la pureté de Non-être.
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Why not let it follow the beer buying age ? It makes sense that people first get voting rights when they are able to drink a beer.
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18. It works fine the way it is.
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Voting, entering military, and buying liquor should all be the same age.
I'll say 19.
Edit: Ok, 18.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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18, seems to be fine at the moment.
it's all kind of academic though, the real focus should be getting young people to actually vote, rather than worrying about changing the voting age."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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Nah, buying booze should be legal for everyone. Civil privileges or duties are different from basic freedoms.
When all drugs were legal in this country, minors could buy anything. And it just wasn't a big deal, people assumed they were buying for someone who couldn't be there and sent the kid and there doesn't appear much of a drug problem among minors back then, especially compared to today. It was considered more medicinal than recreational. I think prohibition is a great example of the forbidden fruit phenomenon, or sticking it to those bossy adults, or teen rebellion. Put a small child in a room with lots of stuff to play with and tell them not to look in a certain box and walk away and that kid will probably look in the box.
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I vote "Jaguar's age +1"
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Originally posted by joncha
I vote "Jaguar's age +1"
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oh yeah
18 or when they're no longer under adult or state supervisionComment
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QFTOriginally posted by joncha
I vote "Jaguar's age +1"
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18. That should also stay the age of majority, where kids take on adult responsibilities as well as getting adult privledges. I think, at least (since there is no way the drinking age will be banned), the drinking age should correspond to the age of majority.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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16-17. Once you turn 18, your ability to vote is revoked.
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