Comment on Voting compulsory for 16 and 17-year-olds in Belgium, court rules

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bbuez@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

And yet the US’s (typical) drinking age is 21, opposed to voting at 18, and driving at 16. Driving likely because its necessary for any sort of mobility, and drinking because we’ve deemed that some adults are too young to drink, but are old enough to own a firearm and be recruited to the military. Its arbitrary

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