Drastically lowering the voting age as Germany is considering here would solve a huge amount of problems (which is why it will of course not happen).

An excellent overview of the issues around Slate Star Codex without having to read a single word of the blog yourself. That’s an excellent service.

“This gets at the heart of what’s deeply wrong with this perspective: it prioritizes currently non-existent, possibly never-existent, hypothetical future possible people over living, breathing people today, because the former could possibly, maybe, perhaps far outnumber the latter.”