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So I was thinking today, we could weight the votes by life expectancy. The fewer years left in your life, the less your vote counts. In this case I wouldn't ha
by aidos 10y ago
So I was thinking today, we could weight the votes by life expectancy. The fewer years left in your life, the less your vote counts.
In this case I wouldn't have to go home and explain to my children why it is that they probably won't be allowed to go and live in Europe for a bit when they hit their 20s anymore.
- delboy88 10y agoCan you explain to me why your children won't be allowed to live in Europe for a bit, if the UK is not in the EU?
- jstimpfle 10y agoThat would be a pretty one-sided weighting. And it penalizes not only age but education and "wisdom" (assuming these are correlated).
- zghst 10y agoI think for the majority of the population, it does
- sbmassey 10y agoSo I imagine that mens votes would count less than womens, at a particular age, and similarly for people in high risk occupations or who are obese or who have a fatal disease.
- zghst 10y agoThey can still go and live in Europe, not a big deal
- jacquesm 10y agoI do not think you'll have to explain them that they will be just as welcome as everybody else.
- zepto 10y agoWhat are you talking about? Prior to Brexit, British citizens could live and work in European countries without qualification. This is not true for the rest of the world.
- jacquesm 10y agoThere are millions of non-EU born people living and working on EU soil today, the future will not suddenly change to where UK citizens will not be given the same opportunity to move to the EU than we afford the rest of the world.
- zepto 10y agoStill, what are you talking about? British youth will have worse opportunities for working in Europe than they now do, and parents who voted to leave will have to explain that to their children.
- jacquesm 10y agoThe original comment read: > they probably won't be allowed to go and live in Europe for a bit when they hit their 20s anymore. You write: > British youth will have worse opportunities for working in Europe than they now do Which is something else.
- aidos 10y agoI wrote it in a rush a phrased it poorly / overly strongly. I meant it in the spirit of it being definitively harder to do than it is now.
- superswordfish 10y agoAgreed, those with hazardous occupations should be disenfranchised.