What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

voting only gives us the illusion of choice, none of its real anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVJI3HHsWyg

Yeah and we wouldn't let loads of older people sign a serious contract, for example. Are you suggesting disenfranchising them too? And I'm not necessarily disagreeing, I'm just always surprised by how flippantly people dismiss one group from voting and not another group based on the same criteria.

As much as I don't like the fact that some people just vote the way their parents pr grandparents do, you asked if they should be ALLOWED to do so and my answer is yes.

I get you. Me too, to be honest. Removing the party names and voting based on policies would be fascinating. There are sites that analyse the manifestos close to an election. You fill out the questionnaire, rate how important you consider a range of issues and it shows which manifesto you most closely align with. I did it with a load of friends in the UK a couple of elections back and a good fee of them came out Lib Dem. They were really surprised and then voted for the party they always voted for anyway.

The country would be much better off if people voted on policy lines rather than party lines.

To be fair; the thread topic is "Controversial Opinion"... I put out the original one of disagreeing with the premise of "one man, one vote"; it's an opinion that I don't have all the immediate answers on either.

Just fed up of hearing ridiculous misinterpretations of policy / down right stupid opinions being bandied about and knowing that their vote carry's the same weight as everyone else.

To be clear, it's not differing opinion I'm contesting either. I think a large chunk of people don't really care, they'd vote black is white despite what demonstrable. Some people need to be led.

I think we're saying the same thing.

Agreed - that's where I was coming from with my original post. It's a controversial opinion, not something I've fleshed out with a workable solution that everyone would buy in to.

The " Blind Date" solution is one that could work in theory but would be impossible to police. Your last line sums it up; policy lines rather than party lines/dogwhistle stuff.

It's controversial.

Tesco own brand crisps are nicer than Tayto.

very true. tayto is way too salty in my opinion.

Reported for hate speech.

i like this controversial opinion.

its not the fantasy we're into, its imagining having sex with the characters that counts. the ones above 18 of course

That's not controversial. Well I'd say plenty of people are not informed enough to make an informed vote.

The controversial part is that we disenfranchise an entire group from voting because we think they're not informed enough to vote, but once that same uninformed person becomes 18, they can vote for the rest of their life. Nobody ever judges how informed they are. If that person gets dementia, we still don't consider them too uninformed to vote.

The fact that young people aren't allowed to vote is a scandal. And it's so obvious it's staring us in the face.

You sound like someone who has never heard of Disney or Pixar or just doesn't understand that lots of great entertainment is designed for both adults and kids. HP is marketed towards kids but when Rowling wrote the books they were written to appeal to everybody.

you almost made that sound like its everyone inherent right to have sex lmao.

"Even if you make an uninformed choice that's your right and your choice to make." sex isnt a choice for some people

Could you explain that a bit? Sex and driving are very strange proxies for qualification to vote. I get work as you're a stakeholder in paying tax, but that's not the only consideration.

Why would sex and driving qualify someone to vote when you also say it doesn't matter how informed they are? If being informed on what they're voting for doesn't matter,then why disqualify anyone from voting?

alot of people sell their vote for a badge or a pencil, or a free lift down to the voting hall lol.

i'd be open to selling mine to the highest bidder if there's anyone genuine tangible cash offers. if not, then maybe i may vote for wheover i suspect of having the least amount of votes, or vote for no one. i'm really not sure. i guess it depends on policy, if one has a policy i like i'll vote for them.

some people vote on a variety of weird irellevent or creepy things, some of what i seen people talking about deciding on what to cast their vote on, includles: whoever has the nicest smile, whoever appears in the papers more, whoever is most populor, whoever they see spammed on the signs in their local area, whoever is a different gender or race, whoever looks sexiest, whoever their family or friends is voting for, whoever has the most attractive body.

i think to myself "wtf". Probebly has to be one of the most controversial methods of voting i've ever seen.

one of my favorites however has to be people making it a (controvercial) point to intentionally refuse to vote for certain parties due to their involvement and how they reacted in the past to historical irish events, and how they treated their own people.