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> My instinct is to think that 16 year olds generally don't have the maturity to make these kinds of decisions.

Well _my_ instinct is to think that anyone who disagrees with me is equally unable to decide, grampa.

You don't need "instinct." We have peer-reviewed, highly-reproducible scientific studies on brain development.

We also have similar for age-related decline. My dad is facing vascular dementia at 90.

If the senile and the crazy can vote, why not 16-year-olds?

"There's already a forest fire across the road, so nobody will care if I toss a cigarette out on this side" is the sort of idea I might have embraced myself... at 16.

Let's be real. Limiting voting from certain age would spark even bigger outrage.

It is too hard to take the vote away from this entrenched voting block despite their decaying mental state. So we're going to make sure we only disenfranchise another group that has less power.

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