Age of voting
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The Norwegian Minister of Municipalities, Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa, is suggesting that 16-year-olds should get to vote (as an experimental thing, first and foremost) in the municipal elections in 2011. The logic is that more people should be able to determine the results.
I’m not sure if I think 16-year-olds are mature enough, but then again, I know of plenty of so-called adults who I definitely would not consider mature enough either…
18 is a logical limit, to me, at the moment, in Norway, because you have to be 18 to get your license, you have to be 18 to buy cigarettes, you have to be 18 to buy alcohol… and it is at 18 that you’re considered old enough so that your parents technically don’t have to support you anymore. (Ie. the child support money from the state stops coming in.)
On the other hand - at 15 you’re criminally responsible for your own actions. If you’re old enough to be penalized for a crime you did commit, you’re old enough to decide what is and isn’t criminal, by electing the politicians who decide the laws. The age of consent, though, is 16. But the criminal age of consent should perhaps count more than the sexual age of consent? So why choose 16 instead of 15?
How old do you think people should be in order to vote?
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