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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: NAMBLA RESOLUTION
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Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 20:20:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 20 20:20:31 1984
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The problem with allowing a few deep 12-year-olds to vote is very
obvious:  How the %$^%&^$ are you going to decide which 12-year-olds
are deep and which 24-year-olds are shallow?  Is the state going
to administer a test?  If so, will people "cheat?"  Think of the
overhead involved of having to evaluate (in any way, shape or form)
everyone who wanted to vote.  At least age is something that is
reasonably easy to verify and has some sort of subjective relation
to the person's ability to be responsible.  Or, what of a system
like in Heinlein's "Starship Troopers?"  The only earth people
who were allowed to be "Galactic Citizens" were the ones who
had done military service (I think this is a bad idea, but I use
it to show how bad things could be).  Sorry, Laura, I just can't
even consider an alternate scheme to age unless someone can
show how it can be implemented with any degree of success.

"Cooled down somewhat from my initial reaction to this article..."
-- 
Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh