re: #166 LudwigVanQuixote

I would expand those rules beyond military service. If the goal is voting by the responsible ones who cared enough to work for the common good, then that should surely include medical doctors, school teachers, scientists, both defense and prosecuting attorneys etc… who work on public projects. I would even extend it to the people who do x amount of hours helping old people. Many people have many gifts to offer. The point is that they offered and cared.

As a corollary to that, if say an issue comes up with say health care for the elderly, some contingent of the populace will have direct experience with that and actually cast votes with the benefit of knowing the issues, where as the wanks who never helped anyone get to say nothing on the matter. That would force the debate into a much higher plane and yield much closer scrutiny of the government.

See my 170, the book made it clear military service was not the only option. Their is a passage where Rico asks a nurse what happens if someone fails the physical and gets laughed at. The nurse’s reply was that if a blind paraplegic showed up, he would still pass and the goverment was required to find him a place to contribute even if that meant counting caterpillars by touch, since they could not discrimate against anyone wishing to serve.