
Daniel Weinstock - Should Adolescents Vote?
The Curious Task
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The Importance of Cognitive Decline in Democracy
There's some very distasteful accounts that are often given of what happens in like retirement homes when people are clearly cognitive decline, right? Meet the emergence of a new radical voting block. Then we end up with an argument that is quite corrosive to the very idea of democracy. I think there's no doubt that just as was the case when women got the right to vote, just was, as was the cases probably when we went from 21 to 18,. By bringing a new population into the vote, you probably do make a change to what the election will look like. But first of all, because you're bringing another perspective onto the issues, it doesn't have to be this extreme
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