Harleyman Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Those who would be classified as 'too stupid to vote" should then be excused from paying taxes of any kind. If the arrogant "superior minded" would deprive them of their basic right as citizens to participate in the selection of whose to govern then they owe nothing to the government that they had no say in choosing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Those who would be classified as 'too stupid to vote" should then be excused from paying taxes of any kind. That does not follow; the right to vote and the responsibility to pay taxes have never been connected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biotechpete Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Perhaps we could just use the measure of 5 A-C GCSE passes. Anyone who cannot pass should be made to stay at school until they have 5 GCSEs and become (at least marginally) employable. Until you pass you can't vote or claim benefits. It might also encourage kids and parents to pay a little more attention to the education system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harleyman Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 That does not follow; the right to vote and the responsibility to pay taxes have never been connected. A citizen has the right to vote and an obligation to pay taxes. These are two of the basic concepts of what being part of a nation or a community is all about Having a low IQ does not classify someone as being mentally retarded or mentally incompetent therefore to deny someone of so called "lesser intelligence" their basic rights as a citizen is in turn denying that person their civil rights as a citizen. The whites in the southern American states in the days of racial segregation denied black Americans the right to vote using the excuse that "those people" did not have the education or intelligence to vote Get the point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harleyman Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Don't the stupid have a role to play in society? So what's your role sid ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gault Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 The IQ test was invented by people who are good at IQ-test-type logic solving, and therefore was deemed by those people to be a good measure of intelligence. Intelligence used to be marked out by people who were competent in ancient Latin and Greek - because the people who decided who were and were not intelligent, were people who'd been taught Latin and Greek at school. I dare say that anyone proposing any measure at all of intelligence, would somehow and coincidentally find that they personally always passed it. There speaks one who's been there and failed. Touch of soure grapes me thinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 There speaks one who's been there and failed. 138 doesn't count as a fail, does it? I thought the average was defined as 100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gault Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 If you took one of those 'free tests' it duz. They add 30 points or so to the score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gault Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Go here for a tast of the real deal. http://www.mensa.org/workout.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 If you took one of those 'free tests' it duz. But on the Cattell test given out by MENSA, I'm fairly sure does not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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