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Who Gets To Vote?

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-08 0:10

Anyone that has interacted with society for any amount of time can recognize that the vast majority of people are complete morons.  If we recognize that, we must also recognize that giving universal suffrage is simply insane.  It may sound good in theory, but history has shown us the horrors of the tyranny of the majority.

So how do we decide who gets to vote?  IQ tests?  Test logic and reasoning skills?  Economic status?  Military service (lol Heinlein)?

Or should we go the Plato way and just have a (hopefully) benevolent dictator who was trained from birth to rule?

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-09 0:09

having money allows for a good education. consiquently, those with more money are that much more likely to be better educated and better equiped and informed to vote. unfortunately, the more money they have, the more likely they're going to vote in favor of laws and such that go to the advantage of organizations that continue said wealth, instead of laws that work toward the public good.

if we base voting rights on IQ scores or economic status we'd be tilting the scale in favor of the choices of the better educated, meaning the wealthy and those with special interests. This means the poor, and not so well educated, are left in the dust as laws are passed that put them at a greater and greater diadvantage.

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