It will take hold of you, and you will regret it's absence
- a stupid idiot who thought they could explain why arbitrary age limits are a poor heuristic for experience to a /r/politics user
god typing that out really sells the stupid idiot part huh
I'm not defending any liberal democracy here. Any system where the people in charge of advancement are the ones with a shot at that advancement, there'll be conflicts of interest like this. If a constitutional amendment barring old people from something went in front of a room full of old people who happen to be potentials, that thing's getting shot down faster than a bolt of lightning.
I will only argue in the hypothetical, that there's no test for youthful inexperience, but cognitive decline can be tested. Although that fact is also quite meaningless in a system where the doctor applying the test can be bought off.
My point is actually capitalism bad, a socialist country will figure this stuff out one way or another.