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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 43 points 4 months ago (19 children)

This is a bad idea. You would just be creating another layer of gerrymandering.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (17 children)

I won't call out of or the drawer for bad idea. The idea is fine. There's just zero ways to ever implement it. It's nice to dream though

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Ehh... I think it's fundamentally problematic. Why should only a subset of the adult population be allowed to vote on laws that affect everyone?

[–] TheButter_ItSeeps@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

In most places, citizens below a certain age can't vote, yet laws affect them as well. By extension, one could probably argue that some people "don't know what's best for them" and experts/educated people are better suited to make the laws.

(However, creating such a test would obviously be impossible in practice, and would result in a conflict of interest, leading to discrimination, as muusemuuse points out.)

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