"Dominick Calsolaro is concerned about a plan to put a sewage-treatment plant in Albany's Lincoln Park, next to TOAST Academy."
"What’s behind that impulse to delete? When it comes to acts of violence, taking down profiles may help stem the impulse to try and build a logical case for an act where logic played no role. Distancing a platform from a senseless act of violence may be a public relations move, or a matter of taste, or maybe meant to discourage a profile from becoming a shrine for copycats. But the act has rare precedence in less recent history, and even carries negative connotations with non-online examples — say, if no one were allowed to read the Unabomber’s letters."
"Norms around social media are still evolving, and the urge to delete the profiles of wrongdoers has evolved over time. Surprisingly, the Twitter account of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013, was never taken down, even after he received the death penalty in 2015."
A simple 10% raise to forfeit voting rights for life doesn't seem like that good of a deal. If you make $50,000 a year, that's only a $5,000 a year raise before taxes, or maybe $150,000 over a thirty-year career (again before taxes). A life time after all is a long time.
That said, I would be willing to forfeit my voting rights if it meant that government was better operated on the basis of scientific knowledge without emotion and ideology. Too often public policy is done at the whim of the mob and special interests, not based on reasoned discussion or what the science says is the best course of action. Cutting out democracy in favor of technocracy could lead to better outcomes for society.