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Originally Posted by willravel
How many parents based their votes off what they saw on CNN and Fox? Can't you argue that a great deal of the votes were biased?
We all have bias. Most of us are controled to some degree. I argue that most adults are more controled than kids are by parents. My parents gave me floride pills when I was little b ecause our water wasn't flouridated. No one bothered to tell them that flouride research is 50 years old and that flouride can be dangerous to children. Why did they do that? Their dentist didn't do the research, so someone who is considered trustworthy in that field was wrong.
The news companies (where most of Americans get their information for voting) are controled by profit and ratings. This means that the information we get from them is at least tainted with what we want to see, not what we should see.
Not even emancipated minors can vote.
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I wasn't trying to say anything about the number of legal adults who are or are not influenced by things; I was only trying to say that I don't think it's worth the effort to give suffrage to a group of people who are almost certainly under the influence of a small, specific group of people (parents/guardians). Also, don't get me started on the science/health industry and the foolish trust most people have in "experts" unless you want to start another thread on that in General Discussion. But one person can't do all the research on everything - ultimately, you have to trust the information from somebody enough to let it influence your decisions. That still doesn't mean that we should include a large group of voters who will almost certainly just be amplifying the political influence of the closest adults in their lives.