“Your brain is fully developed at 25” is a popular myth based on one paper that didn’t even say that. It’s just used to take agency away from adults younger than 25.
One counterargument for the over-75 group is that you could argue they also have more accrued wisdom than any other age bracket.
Huh, you’re right. It keeps developing until at least 30, so I will have no increase the lower age to 30 than lol. Thanks!
Absolutely but that is not my argument. Can’t have a bunch of elders voting against decisive climate action because it interferes with what they are used to. No scorched earth voting here no 😄
I suspect that brains continue developing, at least in some respects, for one’s entire life, with diminishing returns as one gets older. 100 years ago it was the general wisdom that an 18-yo can be independent and deserves to vote; while 18-yo’s are less independent today, I still feel we shouldn’t move away from this Schelling point.
Well I do agree that it would be beneficial for me personally to remove 75+ from the voting bloc, but I have trouble seeing a universal argument in favour of this without appealing to “my values are universally good.” Of course, I do believe my values are universally good, but I sort of feel like democracy is meant to be value-agnostic somehow.
“Your brain is fully developed at 25” is a popular myth based on one paper that didn’t even say that. It’s just used to take agency away from adults younger than 25.
One counterargument for the over-75 group is that you could argue they also have more accrued wisdom than any other age bracket.
Huh, you’re right. It keeps developing until at least 30, so I will have no increase the lower age to 30 than lol. Thanks!
Absolutely but that is not my argument. Can’t have a bunch of elders voting against decisive climate action because it interferes with what they are used to. No scorched earth voting here no 😄
I suspect that brains continue developing, at least in some respects, for one’s entire life, with diminishing returns as one gets older. 100 years ago it was the general wisdom that an 18-yo can be independent and deserves to vote; while 18-yo’s are less independent today, I still feel we shouldn’t move away from this Schelling point.
Well I do agree that it would be beneficial for me personally to remove 75+ from the voting bloc, but I have trouble seeing a universal argument in favour of this without appealing to “my values are universally good.” Of course, I do believe my values are universally good, but I sort of feel like democracy is meant to be value-agnostic somehow.