Agree or Disagree: voting age should be 25+

[Brickjectivity]

I'm not talking about one country but every country. It seems like a higher voting age would benefit republics. People who are young don't have a lot of experience and often have never worked or run businesses. My argument is that the young are not very responsible. Currently the voting age is I think too low. Most countries set it at 18.

Here's a link showing the current legal voting age in most countries:

Legal Voting Age by Country

In the majority of states, the legal voting age is 18.

www.worldatlas.com

 

[Argentbear]

I know people in their 50 who are not responsible at all.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

And I know older people who are also incompetent to vote for various reasons...

EDIT: I think 18 is fine. I'm interested in the idea of compulsory voting. Also interested in the requirement that for each office the binding option of "None of the Above" be on the ballot...and that when "None" wins, there has to be another election in 60 days with entirely new candidates...

 

[Kathryn]

Oh, leave it at 18. The same age someone can legally die for their country. But they can't buy a beer till they are 21! And actually I think they can enlist with their parents' permission, at age 17.

 

[GoodAttention]

I'm not talking about one country but every country. It seems like a higher voting age would benefit republics. People who are young don't have a lot of experience and often have never worked or run businesses. My argument is that the young are not very responsible. Currently the voting age is I think too low. Most countries set it at 18.

Here's a link showing the current legal voting age in most countries:

Legal Voting Age by Country

In the majority of states, the legal voting age is 18.

www.worldatlas.com

Should be capped at 75 too.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I'm not talking about one country but every country. It seems like a higher voting age would benefit republics. People who are young don't have a lot of experience and often have never worked or run businesses. My argument is that the young are not very responsible. Currently the voting age is I think too low. Most countries set it at 18.

Here's a link showing the current legal voting age in most countries:

Legal Voting Age by Country

In the majority of states, the legal voting age is 18.

www.worldatlas.com

The 26th amendment to the Constitution ensures it stays at 18.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Eighteen is just fine. You're old enough to drive a car and have a couple of children. Those are responsibilities, and so is voting.

 

[Quagmire]

Rather than basing it on age I think voting should require a voters license, with a test geared towards determining how in touch with reality a person is.

 

[The Hammer]

I'm not talking about one country but every country. It seems like a higher voting age would benefit republics. People who are young don't have a lot of experience and often have never worked or run businesses. My argument is that the young are not very responsible. Currently the voting age is I think too low. Most countries set it at 18.

Here's a link showing the current legal voting age in most countries:

Legal Voting Age by Country

In the majority of states, the legal voting age is 18.

www.worldatlas.com

No

 

[Brickjectivity]

Should be capped at 75 too.

So you're talking limiting it to a 50 year window.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I think that it should be limited to those over 65 and under 75. Though I might want that changed in the future.

 

[anna.]

I'm not talking about one country but every country. It seems like a higher voting age would benefit republics. People who are young don't have a lot of experience and often have never worked or run businesses. My argument is that the young are not very responsible. Currently the voting age is I think too low. Most countries set it at 18.

Here's a link showing the current legal voting age in most countries:

Legal Voting Age by Country

In the majority of states, the legal voting age is 18.

www.worldatlas.com

Disagree. If they're old enough to be conscripted, they're old enough to vote.

 

[crossfire]

Disagree. 18 is fine. They are adults.

 

[Whateverist]

I agree with the sentiment about being old enough to be conscripted is old enough to have a say in politics. But my real motivation is to encourage young people to start voting young and to acquire the habit. Only a party so out of touch with voters that it needs to subvert the will of the people to win elections wants to suppress voter. turn out.

 

[blü 2]

I'm not talking about one country but every country. It seems like a higher voting age would benefit republics. People who are young don't have a lot of experience and often have never worked or run businesses. My argument is that the young are not very responsible. Currently the voting age is I think too low. Most countries set it at 18.

Here's a link showing the current legal voting age in most countries:

Legal Voting Age by Country

In the majority of states, the legal voting age is 18.

www.worldatlas.com

I don't have any argument with countries that set voting age at 18.

 

[We Never Know]

I'm not talking about one country but every country. It seems like a higher voting age would benefit republics. People who are young don't have a lot of experience and often have never worked or run businesses. My argument is that the young are not very responsible. Currently the voting age is I think too low. Most countries set it at 18.

Here's a link showing the current legal voting age in most countries:

Legal Voting Age by Country

In the majority of states, the legal voting age is 18.

www.worldatlas.com

Disagree. If you aren't responsible enough to drink until you are 21, then voting should also be 21.

 

[Nimos]

I'm not talking about one country but every country. It seems like a higher voting age would benefit republics. People who are young don't have a lot of experience and often have never worked or run businesses. My argument is that the young are not very responsible. Currently the voting age is I think too low. Most countries set it at 18.

Here's a link showing the current legal voting age in most countries:

Legal Voting Age by Country

In the majority of states, the legal voting age is 18.

www.worldatlas.com

I don't really think age is the issue.

I think the problem is the political system and the show it has become. Is there anyone who can't recognize that politicians say one thing and then do another? that they in many cases seem more interested in maintaining power rather than finding solutions? More and more countries seem to lean towards dictatorship-style governments with lots of surveillance of people etc.

For me personally I have little confidence in any politician and political system and it is more a question of trying to vote for the least incompetent/corrupt one, that hopefully has humanity's best interest in mind.

Whether you can vote as an 18-year-old or have to be older, I don't think makes much difference in how the system (show) works.

We need a political system which are intelligent and which focuses on solutions, which we have very little of at the moment. The environment and animals are doing badly, war is ongoing and probably worse ones to come. With the technologies and resources we have available, I think humanity as a whole could do a lot better than we currently are if we had better political systems and a more healthy foundation. Money and power aren't good motivators for reaching it I think.

 

[Quagmire]

Disagree. If you aren't responsible enough to drink until you are 21, then voting should also be 21.

That's what we need: More drunken voters.

 

[We Never Know]

That's what we need: More drunken voters.

Now more will also be high

 

[Brickjectivity]

That's what we need: More drunken voters.

Yes. Its to ease the guilty pain felt in the voting booth.