Oddly enough, I support allowing at least children who are old enough to read a ballot the right to vote.
I wouldn't go quite that far, but I definitely think there's no valid reason to prevent children above 10 or 11 (isn't that around when the capacity for abstract thinking develops?) from voting.
Other than or in addition to the fact that they have no idea how a county/state/nation should be run?
I mean, most adults don't possess that knowledge either, but at least they possess the capacity
12-year-olds also very clearly possess the capacity. Congrats, you've done a very good job debunking your own argument.
12-year-olds can regurgitate abstract ideas, but they don't have the life experience to know how things ought to be.
Neither do most adults.
Which, I think, is a good segway into my most controversial oponions:
People aren't competent to regulate activity that doesn't affect them directly. The modern nation state pretends that its laws are objective, but they inevitably reflect the interests and ideals of the dominant class; this contradiction will only be solved when people are allowed to form and reform the bonds of community in accordance with their goals - and respect the right of others to do the same.
