Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
18?

If you can't be trusted to buy a pint of Fosters in a pub or a lottery ticket in a corner shop, I'm not sure you can be trusted to decide who runs my kids schools or the hospitals my parents can be treated in.

Voting is a right people have sacrificed everything for, I'm not sure it should be given at 16 as a little more life experience is necessary, IMO. Appreciate everyone does mature at different ages though.
You can drive and get married at 17. You can work and pay taxes when you’re 16, have sex, leave full time education and are charged as an adult for trains and busses.

I’ve no strong opinions on the voting age but I wouldn’t say putting an X in a box requires any more maturity than driving a 1500kg lump of metal at 70mph. We already give 16 and 17 year olds the chance to make plenty of big, life changing decisions.