we don’t know the 1. narcissism or 2. epistemic competence distributions across parents
or across non-parents, or old people, or teenagers, or any other group. If we think we CAN measure them well, we should just measure them and set voting standards for individuals, not age-based demographic groups (though I’d be fine with a combo: everyone can vote between 25 and 65, and anyone who passes the competence/non-narcissism/whatever threshold can vote regardless of age).
SITG-suffrage
Not familiar with the term, and Google doesn’t show anything that looks relevant on the first few pages of “SITG” suffrage. I assume this is the theory “landholders are the only ones with standing to care about the land, and they happen to be the rich and powerful” idea. If you don’t mean to guilt-by-association an argument, then please don’t do so.
I dispute the assumption that 70-year olds only care about the same things that the previous cohort did, and not about the things they cared about as 60-year-olds. That caricature is at least as bad as saying 16-year-olds care about the same things that all 16-year-olds have cared about forever (sex/freedom/unearned respect/bad music). I’d argue there’s more truth in the latter, but not enough truth to make a valid argument.
I’d also like to point out that dotards select themselves out of voting by not having spare energy to participate. The young and stupid/naive have no such selection mechanism.
SITG-suffrage
Sorry, by this point OP and I had established “right to vote weighted by stake” as a concept, using the words “skin-in-the-game”, so SITG was an acronym for skin-in-the-game, and suffrage referred to right to vote.
Parents are different from any other group in my comment because I was referencing Richard Kennaway’s question “Does having children whose future you care about also count as skin in the game?”
or across non-parents, or old people, or teenagers, or any other group. If we think we CAN measure them well, we should just measure them and set voting standards for individuals, not age-based demographic groups (though I’d be fine with a combo: everyone can vote between 25 and 65, and anyone who passes the competence/non-narcissism/whatever threshold can vote regardless of age).
Not familiar with the term, and Google doesn’t show anything that looks relevant on the first few pages of “SITG” suffrage. I assume this is the theory “landholders are the only ones with standing to care about the land, and they happen to be the rich and powerful” idea. If you don’t mean to guilt-by-association an argument, then please don’t do so.
I dispute the assumption that 70-year olds only care about the same things that the previous cohort did, and not about the things they cared about as 60-year-olds. That caricature is at least as bad as saying 16-year-olds care about the same things that all 16-year-olds have cared about forever (sex/freedom/unearned respect/bad music). I’d argue there’s more truth in the latter, but not enough truth to make a valid argument.
I’d also like to point out that dotards select themselves out of voting by not having spare energy to participate. The young and stupid/naive have no such selection mechanism.
Parents are different from any other group in my comment because I was referencing Richard Kennaway’s question “Does having children whose future you care about also count as skin in the game?”