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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 24 June 2016 08:11:36AM *  1 point [-]

(had the idea after seeing this)

Each person's vote should be weighed by their life expectancy given their age.

(ETA: I will downvote any comment in this subthread discussing the object-level issue of whether Britain had better stay in the EU, no matter how reasonable and insightful it is.)

Comment author: pseudobison 28 June 2016 07:23:48PM *  2 points [-]

This seems like a slippery slope. Minorities tend to have shorter life expectancies than whites, at least in the U.S. and U.K. Do their votes then count for less?

Comment author: Lumifer 28 June 2016 07:49:16PM 2 points [-]

At the bottom of that slippery slope is an ice floe.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 29 June 2016 09:21:03AM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure that's worse than what present-day Americans do.

Comment author: Lumifer 29 June 2016 02:33:42PM 0 points [-]

You do realize that getting onto that ice floe is not voluntary, right?

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