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sc94597 on 10 August 2015
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Samus Aran said:
sc94597 said:
Samus Aran said:
sc94597 said:
 

Yet you believe that people without degrees are less than people with degrees and should not vote. Quite socially egalitarian there.

In my country pretty much everyone has the opportunity to study. So if people don't use that opportunity then that is their fault.

 

Is study the be all, end all for all people though? What if somebody wants to become a skilled laborer (electrician, plumber, specialised painter, carpenter, etc) or want to start their own business? Not everybody needs or wants higher education, and it isn't the only way to make a good living.

We're not talking about making a good living though, we're talking about who should decide who is in power.

I know people who never went to college and made more money than my first job (though I had a lot more options to get promotion). I respect anyone regardless of their education, but I firmly believe voting should be a privilege and not a right.

The issue is that voting affects everyone. Additionally people without said degrees succeed because of qualities that would also make them a good voter, but you disqualify them because they don't have a degree. I don't see how I - somebody who will end up with a PHD in physics when all is said and done, and two bachelor's (one in physics, the other in economics) am any more qualified in voting a politician who will decide a policy that affects - say an Uber driver - than said Uber driver, for example. All people have the right to vote on things which will affect them, if they are going to be forced to partake in said system. As the saying goes, "no taxation without representation." This was one of the cornerstones of the transition from elitist based monarchies to egalitarian (relatively) republics. Voting restrictions or mandates, impair this progress.