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too old people should not be able to vote
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this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2026
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My line of thought was more "older people are usually more deattached from reality than younger people due to old age's deterioration and generally they stick with old ideals" rather than "they are about to die so they will not care about what happens next"
On two feets i'd say that 80 is the perfect cut off, though it would take further research to determine a better age cut off, this also should answer the question about cancer terminal patients (and if it's not too obvious: they can still vote)
If your criteria is detachment from reality then the younger generations should be banned for using tiktok etc. People with dementia shouldnt vote.
Yeah basically, it would get shitty pretty fast tbf due to it being easy to rigg, that's why that opinion is overall very bad
You're making it very easy to tell you're extremely young.
Not really considering i am just doin RP basically