Yes, indeed.
When people are looking in the long-term, to write a constitution or a bill of rights for example, they are protecting themselves from moments where all they care is short-term.
Unless we're willing to lower the voting age to 12 too, then the abused children get the chance to vote against their abusers, otherwise, who's going to defend them? The Fascists?
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"Tout ce qui est exagéré est insignifiant." ("All that is exaggerated is insignificant.") - Talleyrand
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