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Lower the Voting age to 16

frusciante89frusciante89 Posts: 125
edited July 2007 in A Moving Train
Hey, I work, pay taxes and can be sent to war in 2 years but I Cant Vote. Makes me kinda mad, what are others thought on lowering the voting age.
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  • CorporateWhoreCorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    Only if you think you're also old enough to get a job and support yourself independently.

    Who am I kidding? I'm 21 and I still don't have a job or support myself indepedently.

    As long as yer a conservative, sure.
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  • frusciante89frusciante89 Posts: 125
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    Only if you think you're also old enough to get a job and support yourself independently.

    Who am I kidding? I'm 21 and I still don't have a job or support myself indepedently.

    As long as yer a conservative, sure.
    sorry dude, i am a dirty 17 year old liberal.
  • MLC2006MLC2006 Posts: 861
    you're able to be sent to war in 2 years? well, then you can vote in 2 years. your focus at this point should be getting laid. if you'd rather be standing in a voting line for an hour rather than home formulating a strategy for getting laid, then there is something wrong with you. also, I think the driving age should be raised to 21 because most of the younger drivers I've observed are downright scary.
  • onelongsongonelongsong Posts: 3,517
    frusciante89 wrote:
    Hey, I work, pay taxes and can be sent to war in 2 years but I Cant Vote. Makes me kinda mad, what are others thought on lowering the voting age.

    raise the voting age to 21 when the human brain is fully developed. most 18 year olds vote for who they "like" and ignore who is qualified.
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I'm 16, and I agree with raising the driving age to 18, but lowering the voting age to 16.
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  • CorporateWhoreCorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    onelongsong wrote:
    raise the voting age to 21 when the human brain is fully developed. most 18 year olds vote for who they "like" and ignore who is qualified.

    Then increase the age at which men may be drafted to 21.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    MLC2006 wrote:
    you're able to be sent to war in 2 years? well, then you can vote in 2 years. your focus at this point should be getting laid. if you'd rather be standing in a voting line for an hour rather than home formulating a strategy for getting laid, then there is something wrong with you. also, I think the driving age should be raised to 21 because most of the younger drivers I've observed are downright scary.

    like the wise grandfather in little miss sunshine said... "you should be gettin that young stuff now!"

    i think everything should be 19. 19 you vote, drink, gamble, smoke, fight, whatever. at 19 you become an adult and no more of this bullshit divisions. driving is the only thing id keep younger, becos as scary as young drivers are, the thought of kids teaching themselves to drive without parents is worse.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    onelongsong wrote:
    raise the voting age to 21 when the human brain is fully developed. most 18 year olds vote for who they "like" and ignore who is qualified.

    you say that like most adults dont do the same thing... most kids dont vote and the ones i know who do put more thought into it than most adults i know. maybe cos they're still young enough to think it matters and find it exciting, whereas the adults seem to only do it out of habit and mindless devotion to their team... sorry, i mean party.
  • CorporateWhoreCorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    soulsinging wrote:
    like the wise grandfather in little miss sunshine said... "you should be gettin that young stuff now!"

    i think everything should be 19. 19 you vote, drink, gamble, smoke, fight, whatever. at 19 you become an adult and no more of this bullshit divisions. driving is the only thing id keep younger, becos as scary as young drivers are, the thought of kids teaching themselves to drive without parents is worse.

    Make sure they wrap their thangs before they decide to get into that sex.

    Or maybe just not do it.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    Make sure they wrap their thangs before they decide to get into that sex.

    Or maybe just not do it.

    why the hell would you not do it? it's the last chance they'll have in their lives to get pussy that tight.
  • CorporateWhoreCorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    soulsinging wrote:
    why the hell would you not do it? it's the last chance they'll have in their lives to get pussy that tight.

    Nah.

    Just date a Catholic chick.

    They're freaks!
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    Nah.

    Just date a Catholic chick.

    They're freaks!

    ive dated the wrong catholic chicks i think.
  • CorporateWhoreCorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    soulsinging wrote:
    ive dated the wrong catholic chicks i think.

    Make sure she goes to church more than twice a week.
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Hey I'm for it. If it means more people who are going to actually vote.
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  • CorporateWhoreCorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    libragirl wrote:
    Hey I'm for it. If it means more people who are going to actually vote.
    Hah, good point. Young people generally don't vote, but if they're already in school that day, might as well!
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    Hah, good point. Young people generally don't vote, but if they're already in school that day, might as well!

    yeah it would be convenient at least....
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    Make sure she goes to church more than twice a week.

    i dont think those types put out so easy. on the flipside, ive never met a single catholic who goes more than once a week except the grade school kids who have to go twice. besides, even great freaky sex isnt worth putting up with a devoutly religious nut.
  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    onelongsong wrote:
    raise the voting age to 21 when the human brain is fully developed. most 18 year olds vote for who they "like" and ignore who is qualified.
    i agree and not only that they vote for who there parents to tell them to vote for.its the same with people who vote just cause they can, id rather have people not vote then people waste a vote for someone they dont have a clue bout. alot of young people voted for kerry in 04 cause it was the cool thing to be anti-bush and all. i voted for kerry cause i truly thought he was a better leader, not cause mtv/rock the vote said there was gonna be a draft
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    metsfan531941 wrote:
    i agree and not only that they vote for who there parents to tell them to vote for.its the same with people who vote just cause they can, id rather have people not vote then people waste a vote for someone they dont have a clue bout. alot of young people voted for kerry in 04 cause it was the cool thing to be anti-bush and all. i voted for kerry cause i truly thought he was a better leader, not cause mtv/rock the vote said there was gonna be a draft


    perhaps the best thing to end this war would be to bring the draft in. then all the people who couldn't be naffed about what's going on would be up in arms and out on the street cause they realise they, or their kids could be sent to iraq or any other country washington has its eye on.
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  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    catefrances wrote:
    perhaps the best thing to end this war would be to bring the draft in. then all the people who couldn't be naffed about what's going on would be up in arms and out on the street cause they realise they, or their kids could be sent to iraq or any other country washington has its eye on.
    good point and i agree with it, but thats why there will never be a draft. the neo cons and oil man know that would happen and would lose alot of money cause of it.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    metsfan531941 wrote:
    good point and i agree with it, but thats why there will never be a draft. the neo cons and oil man know that would happen and would lose alot of money cause of it.


    agree. :)
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  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,173
    I am more inclined to agree with soulsinging about needing one age requirement to determine when you are legally an adult. I don't necessarily agree with 19, but I haven't put much thought into it though.

    One of my biggest reasons is that how can a person make the very serious decisions to elect a president and enlist in the military to go to war, yet they can't buy an alcoholic beverage? That is absurd and makes absolutely no sense at all.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    markymark550 wrote:
    I am more inclined to agree with soulsinging about needing one age requirement to determine when you are legally an adult. I don't necessarily agree with 19, but I haven't put much thought into it though.

    One of my biggest reasons is that how can a person make the very serious decisions to elect a president and enlist in the military to go to war, yet they can't buy an alcoholic beverage? That is absurd and makes absolutely no sense at all.

    oh yeah its the same in my country. we can trust the kids to drive but we dont trust them to vote. ridiculous.
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  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,173
    catefrances wrote:
    oh yeah its the same in my country. we can trust the kids to drive but we dont trust them to vote. ridiculous.
    Oh, another big one that gets me is charging kids as an adult for crimes they have committed. I've seen kids as young as 12 be charged as an adult. Granted, these cases are usually more heinous, but still it goes against the principal of having an age (or ages in the case for most places) that determines when a person is an adult.

    growing up I never understood why there were so many different laws regarding the "legal age"

    now that I have passed those limits, I still don't understand why there are so many laws and it doesn't make any more sense
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