(April 23, 2016 at 5:49 am)Napoléon Wrote: But honestly? If we're going on this basis, why don't we put other restrictions on voting? Why do people with an IQ below 80 get to vote (for example)?
Quite simply, because most of us live umder nominally democratic systems we value government by the collective consent of the governed. Disenfranchising the.governed is anathema to that end.
I for one would not want to live under a system where officials had this sort of power.
Even stupid, ignorant people are entitle to have a voice.
