Electoral Euthanasia

Well Jamelia

First you go and utterly ruin a beautiful Sam Brown song - I forgave you for that a long time ago. You do have a good voice, with or without auto-tune. Just don't do that again.

And then you come up with this brilliant idea of disenfranchising people, many of whom are responsible for the freedom for you to do whatever it is you do. The wisdom that comes with age and experience can never be overestimated.

You are correct when you say they will not be around to experience the consequences or fruits of their vote. This says more than you think: they're not making these choices for themselves. They're not scorching the earth holding two fingers up while they shift their mortal coil. They care, and they're making these choices for you, based on what they know and what you have yet to learn.

Besides, and I truly hope you understand, that should this Electoral Euthanasia ever come to pass, the next in line will be people with mental health problems, disabled people, those with a severely reduced life-expectancies, people deemed to be of the 'wrong' political or religious persuasion... or dare I say it - of the wrong colour or race. Pretty slippery slope that.

Can you think of any recent historical figure in the last 100 years whose main jam was just that?

I think you'd better stop, before you tear us all apart. 

You'd better stop before you go and break us all.