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human
cmv:/ Underage voting should not be allowed

***I am from Switzerland so the voting system is different as at the most countries. so if you know to less about the voting-system go look it up real quick. thanks <3***

For context, there is a huge discussion about if voting under 18 (at 18 you're an "adult") should be allowed.

I personally think that this is a bad idea. I just think if you can vote at 16 you are most certainly to young to have your honest and true opinion on things. When I think back what my political opinion on things were when I was 16 I would not have let myself vote for anything. I was in the middle of puppetry and that's were you really make your mind up and start to think more adultlike.

Also I am kind of afraid that they don't take the voting's serious enough and just vote something random or something meme-ish.

I would like to hear some good arguments why this should be allowed because it sounds pretty progressive to our society.

Edit: What I forgot to mention is that you get fined for not voting. It's not much money but still about 5 Dollars. That's because they want to make the participation rates higher. So the option for them to just not vote is not really available and I don't think you're that interested in politics  at 16 to make yourself the time to read all the things to vote for.

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gpt
Changing the voting age to 16 would allow for more integration of political and civic engagement by youth into their education, which could in turn create more seriously politically engaged and participatory culture. It seems like a really good idea tbh.