Self-study
Rossi: Support It is undemocratic for people to live under a government in which their interests are not represented. ██ ████████ ██████ ████ ███ █████ ██ █████ █████ █████████ ███ █████████ ██ ████████ ███ █████████ ████ █████ ██ █████ ████████
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Summary
Rossi asserts that children should get the right to vote, since it’s undemocratic for people to live under a government that doesn’t represent their interests, and children’s interests are sometimes different from the interests of their parents. Smith acknowledges that children and parents can have different interests. But he concludes that we shouldn’t give children the right to vote, because their conception about what the government can or should do is too simple, and because their timeline for being affected by the government is very different from that timeline for adults.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
For some people, it’s acceptable that that they live under a government that doesn’t represent all of their interests.
The simplicity of one’s understanding is relevant to whether one should get the right to vote.
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Smith's statements can most directly ██ ████ ██ ████ ██ ██ ████████ ███ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ██████
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A democratic government ████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ██ ███ █████████
Unsupported. Smith doesn’t say anything about infringing on rights and whether a democratic government can engage in such infringement.
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Children have rights ████ ████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ █████████ █████████ ████ █████ ████ █████
Unsupported. Smith doesn’t say anything concerning whether children’s rights should be respected. He concludes they shouldn’t get the right to vote. It’s not clear whether this means children have other rights that should be respected.
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News programs for ████████ █████ ████ ████ ██████ ███████████ ██ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ██ ██ ████████ ████
Unsupported. Smith doesn’t say anything concerning how children might be made to be knowledgeable enough to vote. Maybe children just can’t understand news programs.
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Strongly supported. Smith concludes that children shouldn’t be given the right to vote. This implies that Smith believes whatever consequences are associated with children’s lack of the right to vote are worth bearing.
e
If parents do ███ ██████████ █████████ █████ ██████████ █████████ ██ ███ █████████ ███████ █████ █████████ ████ ██ ██████████ ███████████ ██ ███████ █████
Unsupported. Smith doesn’t suggest that there is anyone who could adequately represent children’s interests besides parents.