Plants Should Have the Right to Vote

"By these definitions, one must be conscious and sentient to be a US citizen not just sentient. Plants are only sentient and therefore cannot be a US citizen which, as we know, is a prerequisite to vote."Is a person in a coma concious? Well, let's look at these logical steps: P1: A person in a coma is not aware of, or respond to, their surroundings P2: To be concious, you have to be aware and responding to your surroundings C1: A person in a coma is not concious (P1->P2) P3: You must be concious to have the right to vote (using your logic) C2: A person who is in a coma cannot have the right to vote (P1->C1,P3) Wait, what? We know that a person in a coma has the right to vote if they are legal citizens and all of those prerequisites, there are no federal laws that discriminate against coma patients on the basis that they are not concious, and there is nowhere in the current Constitution that says that unconcious people cannot vote. Using the idea that a living organism must be concious in order to have the right to vote is flawed at its very core. But let's use some more logical steps, if you do not buy the awareness counterargument: P1: It is possible for an American to not have any long-term or short-term memory due to amnesia [1] P2: To be concious, you must "Hav[e] knowledge of something" C1: A person with this condition is not concious P3: You must be concious to have the right to vote (using your logic) C2: A person with amnesia does not have the right to vote (P1->C1,P3) Again, we know that this is not true. There's nothing that says if you have amnesia then you do not have the right to vote, so this entire point is invalidated."The US government represents it's citizens. Plants cannot be citizens (As per the logic in my first argument). Therefore, the US government is not obligated to represent plants."The US government is not obligated legally to represent its constituents either. That doesn't mean that it should disregard the opinions of the citizens, does it?If we give plants the right to vote, then they will become citizens, no matter what. That's the truth. Only citizens can vote, look into all of the laws of the US, so I am not really understanding your logic here. "I chuckled reading this."I'm glad that you find the discrimination of tomatoes to be something laughable, especially how they have been dealing with this issue for over 100 years!"Anyways, to be aware of self-identity a specimen must have a certain level of intelligence. To my knowledge, a tomato has no intelligence. Therefore, it cannot have an existential crisis of identity."Plants have intelligence and therefore have self-identity, according to what you just said [2].Research has found that plants can learn, sense, even REMEMBER, which all meet the requirements of intelligence.Let us use some logic to prove that tomatoes have self-identity: P1: Tomatoes have intelligence [2] P2: In order to have self-identity, a life form must have at least SOME intelligence C1: Tomatoes have self-identity P3: Having a self-identity can lead to worrying about it, making the life go through an existential crisis of identity C2: Tomatoes may be dealing with an existential crisis of identity. [1]. http://en.wikipedia.org...;(this is not an american BUT it is possible for an american to develop this condition)[2]. http://www.pri.org...Thank you for the debate, I appreciate having someone to converse with on this majorly important topic... one that I think will be defining the world within a few decades as more and more plant activists lobby their senators to accept that 1 PLANT = 1 VOTE.Remember, you have to waive the last round. Thanks again!