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should prisoners be allowed vote

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  • #52
    themole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭themole


    Bottle_of_Smoke wrote:
    hehe - Bobby

    They should be allowed, but part me is afraid Sinn Fein will get more votes.

    Not a good reason to deny their right - so a one hundred per cent yes from me.
    Agreed!

    What some people seem to be forgetting is how a republic like your works.

    Let me come up with an purely hypothetical example. The government comes up with a law against drinking tea. Then the next day arrests half the population for breaching the law. If those "prisoners" are not allowed to vote they are not able to affect the regime that caused them to be arrested in the first place.

    The law is driven by the people. When you start to exclude people form that process for whatever reason, being in prison, poor, black, whatever you are in a dictatorship. Saddam Husein was reelected several times, that doesn't mean that most of the people wanted him in power, or that those in prison deserved to be there.


  • #53
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Oh my, the analogies on after hours get better every day.


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