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So I was thinking today, we could weight the votes by life expectancy. The fewer years left in your life, the less your vote counts.

In this case I wouldn't have to go home and explain to my children why it is that they probably won't be allowed to go and live in Europe for a bit when they hit their 20s anymore.

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That would be a pretty one-sided weighting. And it penalizes not only age but education and "wisdom" (assuming these are correlated).

I think for the majority of the population, it does

Agreed, those with hazardous occupations should be disenfranchised.

So I imagine that mens votes would count less than womens, at a particular age, and similarly for people in high risk occupations or who are obese or who have a fatal disease.

I do not think you'll have to explain them that they will be just as welcome as everybody else.

What are you talking about? Prior to Brexit, British citizens could live and work in European countries without qualification. This is not true for the rest of the world.

There are millions of non-EU born people living and working on EU soil today, the future will not suddenly change to where UK citizens will not be given the same opportunity to move to the EU than we afford the rest of the world.

Still, what are you talking about?

British youth will have worse opportunities for working in Europe than they now do, and parents who voted to leave will have to explain that to their children.

The original comment read:

> they probably won't be allowed to go and live in Europe for a bit when they hit their 20s anymore.

You write:

> British youth will have worse opportunities for working in Europe than they now do

Which is something else.

I wrote it in a rush a phrased it poorly / overly strongly. I meant it in the spirit of it being definitively harder to do than it is now.

They can still go and live in Europe, not a big deal

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