Should the voting age be lowered?

i disagree, 18 is low enough as it is imo. 1) Most 16 year olds are idiots, even the smart ones. 2) The vast majority have no idea what responsibility really means. They dont own a home, they dont pay bills, they dont have a family and children they must work and provide for, they dont know what loss is. Most still have their mum wash their clothes ffs. Its no coincidence that people grow more conservative as they grow older. So while many youths have dreams of communist utopias and revolutions, they grow up, get jobs, find meaningful relationships and realize they have more important responsibilities than political activism. Young people are naturally arrogant and dismissive of the old, but wisdom comes with age.

No.
18- the legal age that adulthood begins is the right age to vote.
It is true that the age of sexual consent is 16 for everyone except students involved with a teacher and in some regions of the UK a 16 year old can marry without parental consent.
But only legal adults (not serving or sentenced to imprisonment sentences) should be eligible to vote.

Personally, I think yea. The voting should be lowered to 16. I am aware its only 2 years down but by the time you finish your GCSE's you should be abled to vote. Marriage and the age of consent is 16 so why can't they vote. When I was 16, 2 years ago I was frustrated by the fact that I couldn't vote, albeit some people are easily influenced by articulate speakers and some may not understand that could happen with anyone. Take Scotland for example their referendums were really successful therefore it should be lowered.
What do yalll think?

This is somewhat related to the topic, (kind of) but why do you think people who are serving sentences shouldn't be allowed to vote? Surely if they committted a crime that only require a short sentence they should be allowed to vote?

i disagree, 18 is low enough as it is imo. 1) Most 16 year olds are idiots, even the smart ones. 2) The vast majority have no idea what responsibility really means. They dont own a home, they dont pay bills, they dont have a family and children they must work and provide for, they dont know what loss is. Most still have their mum wash their clothes ffs. Its no coincidence that people grow more conservative as they grow older. So while many youths have dreams of communist utopias and revolutions, they grow up, get jobs, find meaningful relationships and realize they have more important responsibilities than political activism. Young people are naturally arrogant and dismissive of the old, but wisdom comes with age.

Personally, I think yea. The voting should be lowered to 16. I am aware its only 2 years down but by the time you finish your GCSE's you should be abled to vote. Marriage and the age of consent is 16 so why can't they vote. When I was 16, 2 years ago I was frustrated by the fact that I couldn't vote, albeit some people are easily influenced by articulate speakers and some may not understand that could happen with anyone. Take Scotland for example their referendums were really successful therefore it should be lowered.
What do yalll think?

Personally, I think yea. The voting should be lowered to 16. I am aware its only 2 years down but by the time you finish your GCSE's you should be abled to vote. Marriage and the age of consent is 16 so why can't they vote.

Take Scotland for example their referendums were really successful therefore it should be lowered.

Personally, I think yea. The voting should be lowered to 16. I am aware its only 2 years down but by the time you finish your GCSE's you should be abled to vote. Marriage and the age of consent is 16 so why can't they vote. When I was 16, 2 years ago I was frustrated by the fact that I couldn't vote, albeit some people are easily influenced by articulate speakers and some may not understand that could happen with anyone. Take Scotland for example their referendums were really successful therefore it should be lowered.
What do yalll think?

you can blame that on the education system, most people know what's left or right wing let alone the importance of contributing to society-it's seen as an adult thing and since you have to go searching for it yourself it can put other people off. but as you see with the results of brexit and the scottish independence referedum (where 16/17 year olds could vote and i think was the reason or contributed anyway to why the no vote won) the power 16-17 year olds has is enormous. if you feel that this age bracket isn't significantly interested or smart enough, what are you doing to help? are you having conversations about brexit, or teaching people about what an MP is, getting children involved in debating or protests ?? or anything age doesn't matter since the ballot paper sees us all the same, equal, no one is higher or lower than the other. yes there are safe seats but that doesn't mean people shouldn't vote and it's even more of a reason to lower the voting age. 16 year olds (With permission) can serve this country and get married, have children, win the lottery things that all impact on society so why not vote too? the generalisation that young people 'are naturally arrogant and dismissive of the old' is disgusting but you especially, since you're so clearly passionate, can at least do something to change it. if you didn't like the current governent you'd vote them out, if you don't like how a 17 year old is uninterested in politics what are you going to do?

I'm not really sure what marriage and sexual intercourse have to do with voting. For my part, I wouldn't be terribly pleased if a child of mine was looking to marry at 16 or 17 - I would think he or she most likely lacked the capacity to make such an important decision. In any case, very few people of that age do marry.

You could just as easily compare it with buying a pint of beer or smoking a cigarette, both far less onerous choices than the future direction of the country - and both of which we put an age limit of 18 on. I don't really believe the current minimum ages for most things are particularly rational or have a great deal of internal logic. So I'm at a bit of a loss as to why we should use them as guidelines for other things.

Er, there's only been one Scottish-specific referendum with a voting age of 16.

In terms of success, I'm not really sure anyone's objections to votes at 16 are administrative in nature. I have no real doubts that 16 and 17 year olds could be successfully registered to vote, could make it to polling stations and could put crosses in boxes.