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1.) Felons and those in jail should have the same voting rights as all other citizens.
-Strongly Disagree
2.) Ex-felons should have the same voting rights as all other citizens.
-Agree
3.) In general, people are just too obsessed with sex.
-Agree
4.) We would all be a lot better off if people followed the Golden Rule.
-Agree
5.) The government's main responsibility should be to keep order.
-Strongly Agree
6.) Music and the arts are essential for a community to flourish and should be funded by the government.
-Disagree
7.) The right to revolution in the New Hampshire state constitution is a good thing that all states should have.
-Agree
8.) Improvement of the human race through eugenics should be a goal of the government.
-Disagree
9.) A Department of Peace should be added to the presidential administration.
-Disagree
10.) The voting age should be lowered to 16.
-Strongly Agree
11.) Immigration is one of the worst problems the United States faces.
-Agree
12.) The government should not have any business with people's library records, gun purchases, or credit card use.
-Disagree
13.) Restrictions on cellphone wiretapping should be loosened.
-Disagree
14.) Criticism of religions such as Christianity and Islam are not protected by free speech.
-Strongly Agree
15.) The drinking age should be lowered or abolished. 
-Strongly Agree

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Lowering the voting age is really stupid.... Disabled people and the likes grant their right to vote to someone else because they can't physically perform teh act (the person is supposed to cast the vote in teh way the disabled person wants to). There will be a lot of new-borns voting that way, I can assure you. And you acn't strip them of that right, since that would be undemocratic right?

But for obvious reasons, newborns can't make political decisions in the first place. And lowering the voting age is not stupid. As long as the person voting is educated about the issues, why shouldn't they vote? It's age discrimination.

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There was a little kid that was on the news a few months ago because he was interested in politics. And there are a lot of 18 year olds who aren't adequately informed on political issues either.

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Discrimination is a good thing?

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There was a little kid that was on the news a few months ago because he was interested in politics. And there are a lot of 18 year olds who aren't adequately informed on political issues either.

Okay, so the news decided to do a story on the 0.000001% of little kids who are actually interested in politics (note that "interested" does not necessarily translate into "informed").  How does this justify allowing the uninformed 99.999999% to vote?

He asked me a question and I answered it. I don't think people should have to wait until they are 18 to be able to vote. As long as they are informed about the election. I do think that the age to vote should be around 12, not 5.