Lower the Voting age to 16

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  • catefrances
    catefrances 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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  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,234
    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.
  • catefrances
    catefrances 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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  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,234
    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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