if she's 17 and a half). But it doesn't matter: democracy is fundamentally flawed with heterogeneous populations. It works well only amongst Athenian "citizens", Knights of the Round Table, or share holders. If you want to retain some of it, we could privatize entirely the country, give one million shares to each person alive, dissolve the state and replace it by an administration council, and let people vote according to the number of shares they have. They can buy/sell shares. Shares can be inherited (so your question about children vote is solved: parents may give their shares, or buy more for their children). Immigrants would have to buy shares if they want to vote. I realize I make a frivolous point, but I will share some experience of mine. I tend to have an emotional response against drugs, the opposite of yours. At the encouragement of some "high EQ" friends, I ultimately found the most satisfaction not by focusing on drugs at the rational level, but by trying to understand exactly the source of the feelings. When I got down deep enough, I isolated it to a certain fear of lack of freedom that dominates me. Then by digging deeper still, I discovered that at my core I actually believe "people should NOT be free to choose to be without freedom". And that's not such a rational thing to believe, anyhow. indeed we've sort of evolved as a species to divide into different personalities -- some that resist change, others