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| Topic | Should there be consequences to ignorantly voting? |
| Tyranthraxus 03/09/18 2:05:32 PM #30: | NINExATExSEVEN posted... 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. Athenian democracy voters were limited to an elite upper class men (not women) and only Athens natives. Yeah it was an "everyone votes" system in the sense that only a small handful of people were considered people in the first place. It was closer to our voting criteria in 1780s than it is to today. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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