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how about a voting system like this, everyone gets to vote but must take a short test before hand to see how much they know about it. all votes will be counted regardless but the more a person knows about politics = the more their vote counts for. like theirs count as 3 or 2 points instead of 1. or they get 2 votes so they can vote twice or something.

as controversial as that might sound. is this fair and balanced?

low key i would sell my votes for ez monies

There's nothing realistically stopping from selling your vote now.

It would be interesting if they introduced that test and pushed teaching about the system in schools. Young people could end up outvoting old people.

I think if it's OK to disenfranchise based on age then we should discuss the upper age limit on voting. Maybe the vote should be stripped at retirement since they're not working age anymore.

Or maybe if its not OK to stop old people voting, its not OK to stop young people voting either.

it matters because of how quick one can get into a car and drive away after being caught having sex

Sure: at 16 a person is considered mature enough to make those decisions, so they should also be considered mature enough to vote.

I suppose I'm asking for the rationale. If it's not about understanding the voting system or how our parliament works, then why would age, driving or sex be a good measure?

i feel alot of the teen drama was unnecessary and very much got in the way of the films, and only really served to exist for purposes of character development more than anything. it was'nt even good drama either. i believe the life and death parts are more important or should be more important rather than the bickering being taken seriously and teen drama. at moments it felt like they were trying to cash in on things like twlight, or HD graphics and scenery over the plot, and in terms of directors the franchise is like a hot potatoe, theres like3-5 directors, i lost count. maybe more. their different styles of filming could also play into that, or be a part of the complaint.

i love the 5ft and 6th movies, and then the earlier movies, but i admit too much teen drama and not enough (insrt word for follow up or follow through, cant remember the word right now) "continuity" i think. One moment everyone is wearing all black robes and pointy hats and writing with ink feather quirrals, a movie or 2 later, they're running around the castle in modern day clothes and have pencils and schoolbags, and hoodies. And this is meant to be based in the 90s? just because the books came out then or something? i refuse to believe the movies are based in the 90s, not with all their modern day stuff and things, and millenium bridge, and nimbus 2000

I do tbthibk it dies come down to responsibility. If it were about responsibility, then we wouldn't let irresponsible people vote, but we do. We can even take away someone's power of attorney because they have dementia and can't be responsible, and still we don't take away their vote.

I don't think it can be about responsibility.

Well, yeah - the whole point was a teenager growing up. You can't really expect childlike wonder when the main characters have reached 16/17 years old !

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it was the same at 13 and 14 years old for him though. being forced to partake in a dangerous tournament while underage, just because of tradition or some bizzare wizarding law. and having to deal with grim reaper like things the film before. While at the same time juggling between people calling him names and wondering who to take to the dance anxiety crap.

"Growing up" and teen drama was forced on him, not because of the plot, but because of too long being left (timewise) between the movies, and then directors constantly changing, and trying to make up for the gang and draco being much taller because of the amount of time and puberty changed the height of the kids. in other words intentionally making them less kid like because they look taller. He's still only 13 movie wise at that point, but being played by like a 17 year old actor

Paedophilia is just another sexual preference. Its like being gay, bi-sexual, or asexual. I do not condone paedophilia under any circumstance.

Which movie? Harry is 11 in the first one, each book covers one school year, so he'd be 17 for the final one. He's be 14/15 for the Goblet of Fire. Growing up is kinda forced on all of us, which is the parallel story to all the wizarding stuff, but I get your point. Radcliffe was about 15/16 when they made it, but most actors who portray teenagers are in their early 20s.

13 prisoner of azkaban, 14 goblet of fire. Yes growing is somewhat forced on everyone, but i mean not because of age in terms of the move but felt more force due to time restraints and the actors getting older, they probebly didnt want what looked like a 17-18 year old teens having the dialog and voice of a 13 year old, so its like they artifically grew the fictional character too, to make up for this.

There's a 2 year gap irl between the making of harry potter secret chamber (2002) when compared to the next film harry potter azkabans prisoners (2004). and then again this happens between harry potters firey goblets (2005) and harry potters phoenix order (2007) movie. And then again a 3rd time between phoenix order (2007) and 50% blood-prince (2009).

By this its clear we lost anywhere between 3-6 years harry, and also that he only ever gets to "be a kid" in the first 2 movies, we don't get to see him being a 13 year old. it's like they've intentionally skipped right past this phase of his life in terms of dialog, to make him "act his age..irl age" more (no pun intended). Basically we get cheated out of him being a kid, for the sake of actors growing older and to keep up with the appearence of this growth.

sometimes feels like the series is a game of hot-potatoe between all the different directors, and even the scenery and locations often change because of this. Stuff like the location of hagrids hut or differences in pivot drive's shape

i'm not saying to cut old people out from voting, they've lived long enough so its their right to be able to vote. Voting ability should not be taken away from someone on the basis of their age reaching a cut off point.

the solution has already been put forward as best possible answer being allow people to vote but remove the parties names and have their policies there for people to choose from/vote for, instead of party names. That way by reading the policiy they can understand a bit more what it is they are voting for and eliminates a good chunk of bias voting

Yeah, I don't think we should restrict voting based on age. I think we should only restrict voting (if we should restrict it at all) based on reasons that are consistent across the board.

If you think a dementia sufferer should have vote, then why do you think a 10 year old shouldn't have a vote? Serious question.

If we restrict voting on the grounds of lack of understanding of the systems, then do it across the board.

I've said what I think we should do. Either restrict voting based on consistent metrics, or don't restrict it at all. I also mentioned some other reasons to remove the vote such as not understanding the system and think thst should either apply across the board or not at all

If its so obvious why no young people should have a vote, why is it so difficult to explain why, using a reason that can be applied across the board?

Does that answer your question?