Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.
There are plenty of perfectly capable and intelligent people until the day they die. People are individuals not the average of their demography.
I agree, I oppose a minimum age on holding office as well.
You can’t have laws that are based on individuals, they have to be broad by definition or else they are unenforceable or they are oppressive towards certain groups.
Yes you can and do, thats why courts exist
Demographics, like most things are a bell curve and most of us are no more than one standard deviation from the mean.
Any bell curve across hundreds of millions of people has hundreds of thousands to millions of outliers.
Also the average of a demographic is exactly that. The average. To suggest that no-one is the average is either nieve or disingenuous.
Basically no one is average across a sufficiently large number of discriminators.
For me, the main issue isn’t the increased risk of cognitive decline, it’s the fact that I share very few life experiences with people born before the invention of color tv, and someone who has another 5-15 years left will be less impacted by policy decisions than someone who’s going to be around for another 50-60 years. Octogenarians are not representative of the majority of the population and, in a representative democracy, I think that is important consideration.
