DanArmak comments on Arguments Against Speciesism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 31 July 2013 10:22:27AM 2 points [-]

I'd like to add this to the other posters' responses:

Also, 12 year olds are less mature than 18 year olds.

Please taboo "immaturity" for me. After all, if taken literally it just means "not the same as mature, adult people". But the whole point of letting a minority vote is that they will not vote the same way as the majority.

And taking away the vote from demented people and people with low IQ has the problem that the tests may not be perfect.

How is this different from saying that no test of 12-year-olds for "maturity" is perfect and therefore we do not give the vote to any 12 year olds at all?

Comment author: Jiro 31 July 2013 10:48:20PM 2 points [-]

How is this different from saying that no test of 12-year-olds for "maturity" is perfect and therefore we do not give the vote to any 12 year olds at all?

It isn't all that different, but all that that proves is that we shouldn't decide who votes based on maturity tests any more than we should on IQ tests.

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