(July 1, 2014 at 4:56 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(July 1, 2014 at 4:52 pm)pocaracas Wrote: I always felt amazed how you can have half the population (the males) plus another half of the remaining population (women too old to bear children) voting on a subject which doesn't concern them.
Particularly when the subject is abortion, in a country that is overwhelmingly Catholic - though apparently, they aren't True™ Catholics.
Like I already said, just because something doesn't concern you directly it doesn't mean you shouldn't have a saying in it, why can't I vote for gay rights if I'm not gay? It violates the principle of equality, just doesn't sound right to me, sounds more like discrimination. Why don't we allow immigrants to vote for immigrant benefits too? Because it would be unwise. Why don't workers vote for workers rights? Because they would want too many benefits. People always vote on what concerns or benefits them more, it's always been like that.
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