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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Don’t be silly. It’s an axiom that the older you are the greater wisdom you have gathered. From that flows the valid hypothesis that you have very much less wisdom at 16 or 18. Hence the debate about giving the vote to impressionable youth who cannot fully exercise sound political judgement.
I know what bits of the above you’ll pick out to challenge, but most people know that you are being uselessly provocative.
Shall we meet for a curry some day?
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It's only an axiom if it's true, otherwise it's circular reasoning...
I know quite a few older people who seem to get less wise as they get older, who refuse to entertain new ideas or thoughts or approaches, and are quite fixed and rigid in their thinking - wisdom is experience, knowledge, and good judgement, not just having lived longer.