If you’re smart enough to communicate, you’re smart enough to vote! I for one would certainly trust the opinions of the average gorilla over some of my fellow voters at times. :/
Eh. There’s a lot of debate around how much they really understand.
But, even then, I’d trust a gorilla over a MAGAt, any day.
Hey gorilla, I’ll give you more bananas than anyone if you vote for my evil org—I mean political party.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=e7wFotDKEF4
Without saying what I believe, I’m gonna leave this here and let the people make up their minds.
If you’re smart enough to communicate, you’re smart enough to vote
Pretty sure we have seen the exact opposite over the past decade.
I think dogs should be able to vote.
What about children? Criminals? Crows?
With children (as with the primates listed in the OP) there is a risk of them just voting the same way their handlers tell them to. Free thought can certainly emerge in humans before 18 so I’m not opposed to lowering it, but probably only to 16 or so, and not, like, 5. If you can work a job or drive and have to pay taxes you should be able to vote about how your future should be handled. That’s much more appropriate than someone with 9 toes in the grave voting on a future they won’t live to see.
Criminals, believe it or not, do and should have rights. So long as they are citizens of age I see no reason other than uneducated fear that they shouldn’t vote.
Crows would also exhibit the handler risk with the added problem of having to trust an interpreter to transpose their thoughts. Having to rely on an interpreter is nor intrinsically a bad thing, and the primates in the OP would also need one, but far more people understand sign language than crows.
Crows tend to be better at spoken language, due to their weird fingers
