Daniel Weinstock - Should Adolescents Vote?
The Curious Task
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The Limits of Children
There's a British political philosopher who sort of got me, so it's been a bit of a bugbear for me for years and years. I remember having conversations with my kids when they were, you know, nine or 10 years old, right? You know, there's no reason for this person not to be able to have a say in the way that are coming out of their mouths. So again, I would defend the view that there is a limit, but that it's a limit which has to do just with the point at which children are capable of grasping the broad lines of the issues that separate different political parties.
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