Friday, January 28, 2011

Rebuttal: Should teenagers be allowed to vote? YES!

 Well Amber, first of all, pigs can fly. Don't believe me? well, check this out.
Second of all, i disagree with you even though you had some good points. 
I think that you are making too much of a generalization. You are saying as if all teenagers, those in between the ages of 13 and 20, act the same way or think the same way. Like i said on my post, not all teenagers think the same way. Some think in a great way and some just, well, they are just immature. 
I do agree that voting is a very important decision, but do you really think that teenagers could make a huge difference in elections? They are probably not even half of the population of the people who can vote and since they are mostly influenced by adults as you said, I think it would almost be the same if that were the case because if an adult influences a teen on one side then also another adult influences another teen on the other side (confusing, I know). If influence is a factor, then it wouldn’t really matter because it would be the same amount of adults plus the number of teenagers they influenced which would be an almost evenly number per person or per side (also confusing, a little, I know).
 Our brains might not be developed to understand things like mature adults do, but it is developed enough to understand what is good and what is bad and to be able to choose which decision in an election would be the best. 
You say teens aren’t trusted with any major life decisions until they are adults, but they actually are. Don’t you think that going to a school like ASTI is a major life decision? It might not necessarily be one, but for the most part it is. That isn’t such a good example, but you cant assume that teens aren’t trusted with major life decisions because you cant prove that. Wouldn’t driving be a major life decision? When you drive you are risking a lot, I’m sure that the risk of killing someone could be a life decision. They are trusted to drive, but not to vote? Yup.

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