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Topic	Should there be consequences to ignorantly voting?
NINExATExSEVEN 03/09/18 12:33:53 PM #27:	Antifar posted... DuranOfForcena posted... you know, Plato absolutely hated Athenian democracy. he likened it to people voting for who should captain a boat. you wouldn't want just any and every random nobody who has no idea what it takes to captain a boat to vote for who should captain the boat. he said it should be the same with the "Ship of State". one solution he proposed was to have people mandatorily take a competency test before being allowed to vote. the idea isn't necessarily to restrict who can vote, but to have people who want to vote be able to first demonstrate that they are informed and intelligent enough to cast a well thought out vote based on logic and reason. Dude we've done the whole literacy test bullshit before Have we? Because it sounds like Plato was on to something good. --- Listen to my story... This... May be our last chance... <cite>NINExATExSEVEN posted [p:897473807] in Should the... [t:76397577]...</cite> <quote><cite>Antifar posted...</cite> <quote><cite>DuranOfForcena posted...</cite> <quote>you know, Plato absolutely hated Athenian democracy. he likened it to people voting for who should captain a boat. you wouldn't want just any and every random nobody who has no idea what it takes to captain a boat to vote for who should captain the boat. he said it should be the same with the "Ship of State". one solution he proposed was to have people mandatorily take a competency test before being allowed to vote. the idea isn't necessarily to restrict who can vote, but to have people who want to vote be able to first demonstrate that they are informed and intelligent enough to cast a well thought out vote based on logic and reason.</quote> Dude we've done the whole literacy test bullshit before</quote> Have we? Because it sounds like Plato was on to something good. --- Listen to my story... This... May be our last chance...</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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