• protist@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    By this logic, people’s voting power should depend on their age, and people with terminal illnesses should have no vote. Incredibly dystopian

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      There have been many suggestions around such things.

      We already have a system that disenfranchises people, based on where they live, the entire federal Senate for example, each state gets 2 senators regardless of it’s population. Puerto Rico gets zero, and yet they’re US citizens who have to pay federal taxes.

      How is this suggestion worse than those?

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        3 months ago

        I thought you peaked with “involuntary slavery is compatible with democracy”, but this might be worse.