Thoughts for KPalicz: (1) I’m not saying 16-year-olds are “brainless little kid[s]“–but you gotta draw the line somewhere. (2) Voting is less about brain power than it is about judgment and wisdom. (3) I’m generally suspicious of arguments that because society lets someone do X at age whatever, therefore it ought to be willing to let the person do Y at age whatever: Two-year olds have to pay taxes; in most states you have to be 21 to drink but only 18 to vote; sometimes we require people to stop working at 65 but let them keep voting; etc. Each task is different. (4) As a conservative–”Unless it is necessary to change, it is necessary not to change”–I think the burden is on those to show that letting 16-year-olds vote will make things a lot better, not just that it is “reasonable.”
