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The german satire party DIE PARTEI wanted to implement a highest voting age. If you can't vote the first 18 years of your life, you shouldn't be able to vote the final 18 years.
I seriously hoped it would have been implemented The older folks seem to ruin germany more the older they get
How to determine when the last 18 start, though?
Well insurance companies have all the models necessary for that. It's actually called actuary and it's a field of mathematics.
Or, average national lifespan
I hear that in Germany comedy is no laughing matter...
That is true. We like the Monty Pythons more than anyone else does, we adore them! But we would never diminish this feeling by laughing about their jokes. Instead we do argue for hours about the philosophical implications of a silly walk.
Yeah, with a philosopher like Beckenbauer that's exactly what I'd suspect.
However the efficiency of the killing joke does make one wonder how the primordial laughter gets unlocked. Alas, we'll never know.
I've been saying the same thing for years. We should revoke voting status 18y from whatever the national average lifespan. That'll never happen, though.