Prisoners can't vote because they broke the social contract. LRN2HOBBES motherfucker.

Might make elections a bit more fair anyways since most college kids are brainwashed liberals

LoI op u so siIIy

>>8184326
>I clean tables at taco bell
>I am contributing to society
>Students studying medicine and public relations are not
>I should vote and they shouldn't

This would be a great way to give the retarded people an even larger representation woo!!

Because education isn't the most important thing you can contribute to society amirite?

College students pay plenty of taxes. Booze is taxed heavily in most places. Prisoners make their own, tax-free, booze. They call it "toilet wine".

>they dont work

Um, I go to college full time and I work 24 hours a week. What the fuck mang

>>8184359
>implying college kids vote

Full time student - part time employee. Like everyone else in college. IAM voting.

Also Tuition?

>>8184359
So an election is "fair" when you disqualify large portions of voters for disagreeing with you?

What college kids actually vote, anyway?

>they haven't worked

I'm a student, and I've had several jobs since the age of 14. At one point i had two jobs. I'm at university now, and guess what? I have a job.

Its pretty rare that I ever meet college freshmen who arnt liberal hippies.

>implying you can only vote for someone for what they have already done, not what they're going to do

I don't have the patience to address the argument right now, except to say I have nothing but hatred and pity for people who denigrate theory and act like it is somehow seperate from reality.

I don't think felons should be banned from voting either unless they committed a political crime like fixing an election.

>implying

That students won't contribute to society by putting their education to work.

The right to vote is automatic for all right-minded adults who abide by the social contract (ie the rule of law); prisoners are demonstrably not following the rule of law therefore they must forfit their vote, along with the liberty afforded them by the social contract, as a punishment.

>>8184326
>studying and partying
0/10, try again

lol'd at the notion that college students aren't contributing to society by spending 4-8 years studying and taking on ridiculous amounts of debt to work the jobs that taco bell employees are too stupid to do.

1) Lots of people end up paying little to no tax. Discrimination based upon taxes would disfranchise about half the population. We actually used to do that in the US with landownership requirements, and poll taxes...
2) College students generally are spending *lots* of money. It isn't as though they are neutral to the economy.
3) College students haven't violated the social contract. They haven't done anything to make them *lose* their rights.
4) If you haven't committed a felony, you still have the right to vote. So not all prisoners can't vote.

>>8184443
IMMA VOTE FERR THE GUY THAT MAKES THE CRIMES I COMMIT LESS SEVERE

This theory works better with old people instead of college students but it still isn't right.
Felons lose the ability to vote because they are being punished. Plus, OP's idea would have felons the only ones who can carry guns because they're some of the few who have actually used them. If you haven't shot someone, why should you be able to carry a concealed weapon?

Finally, I work and go to school. Hell, I had more income than my accountant last year, true story.

>>8184476
>implying you care as a criminal, about how long you would stay in jail if you were caught

>>8184326


Oh my god that guy is so retarded I can not believe it

When you live in a civilised society, you have a sort of contract. If you follow the laws of the society, you have certain rights. Break the laws, and you lose the rights.
Prisoners cannot vote because they broke a law and therefore lost a right, it has little to do with how much they contribute to scoiety. Alot of prisoners have jobs inside the jail, so they contribute more than the unemployed.

Prisoners can't vote in the USA? What archaic shit is this?

>>8184326
>>8184326
>>8184326
>>8184326
Have you been snorting blocks? Have you read the constitution?!

You might as well put a voting tax so only rich people can vote. Scratch that, let's just get rid of voting all together and establish an elite electoral college that makes all the decisions.

Oh wait........

>>8184417
>>8184417

Heed this words of wisdom by Winston Churchill; "If you are not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you are not Conservative by 40, you have no brain"

Wisdom by the original gangster.

You should have to serve in the military before you become a citizen and can vote. These bugs aren't going to kill themselves!

Prisoners can't vote because they have done something so wrong that they are cast out from society. Once they've served their time, they can get the vote back. Voting is a right, not based on your contributions to society-convicts lose the right to vote for much the same reason they lose their right to own a gun. They've broken the social contract and don't get to have the same rights as those that abide by it.

prisoners can't vote not because they aren't being productive (counterpoint: unemployed people can vote so its not that), they can't vote because they've proven through criminality that they care only about themselves and nothing for society, and allowing them to vote would only let them do more harm.

>>8184665
Winston was a twat. Great war-time leader, shit at everything else.
He was also an alcoholic so I don't take anything he says seriously.

>>8184834
What about disabled people/women?
Fuck you and your outdated stupid ideas

>>8184665
WC said a lot of shit. Take him with three martinis.

>>8184563
because barring poor people and barring criminals is at all politically or morally equivalent.

Are you trolling or is your head that far up your ass?

>>8184834
If you read the book, serving in the military was something that the government tried to discourage as much as possible.

That is, up until the breakout of large-scale hostilities with the Bugs.