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Topic	Should there be consequences to ignorantly voting?
Panthera 03/09/18 2:09:45 PM #32:	DuranOfForcena 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. Dude we've done the whole literacy test bullshit before we did, and it was a sham and its sole intention was to disenfranchise minority voters. that's not at all what i am or Plato was talking about. That is what you're talking about though. The inevitable consequence of any sort of competence test for voting is that the people administering it will use it to conveniently exclude those they don't want having a say. --- We clasped our hands, our hands in praise of a conquerors right to tyranny <cite>Panthera posted [p:897479888] in Should the... [t:76397577]...</cite> <quote><cite>DuranOfForcena posted...</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> we did, and it was a sham and its sole intention was to disenfranchise minority voters. that's not at all what i am or Plato was talking about.</quote> That is what you're talking about though. The inevitable consequence of any sort of competence test for voting is that the people administering it will use it to conveniently exclude those they don't want having a say. --- We clasped our hands, our hands in praise of a conquerors right to tyranny</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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