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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 2:07

well, there's a reason to all things, ever wondered why so many people are stupid?
maybe that's where we need to step in, rather than limiting the amount of people who can vote.

and i agree with #7, sure alot of the people know things, like the intellegent design people, i'm certain they know alot of stuff, that doesn't make them any less retarded, but we can blame religious zealotry on that i suppose.

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