16 year olds voting?

Through the recent topics that have came up in my humanities class about giving the teenagers at the age of 16 the right to vote was soon to be discussed. Last Friday we were given a topic to study and remember so we can have a Socratic seminar today. The tough topic given to us was on giving teenagers at the age of 16 the right to vote. Honestly I strongly disagree on giving the teenager the right to vote. You are basically giving them the right to drink and the right to get married. And during the seminar the groups were split between the boys and the girls. In my group, we had many interesting. And I van to think that I actually did a little less than what i had expected. Its not that I didn't study the text given its that I really did understand what the other students had to say. They used words that i haven't heard of and i think that is what really affected me. Though the conversation was heating up in a good way I had not that many entrances into the conversation. One comment that I gave throughout the seminar was "If your gonna give 16 year olds the right to vote you might as well let them drink, buy cigarettes, tobacco, and get married!" The reason to that comment was because your bestowing so much responsibility in these teenager just to vote on something that wont even effect them like economy wise. Well ways to improve my participation in Socratic seminar are limited to one and that is try to enter into a conversation that I didnt get and ask what they meant about it. In the text that was given to go along with the Socratic seminar there was a point saying " And why stop at voting? Sixteen is a good starting point for phasing for adult rights and responsibilities, from voting to drinking to marriage." This point was one argument that I had made because young kids at the age of sixteen aren't ready for this big responsibility with voting alone and we certainly cant trust them drinking and having the permission of getting married. I disagree because I certainly think I am not ready to go to the voting polls and voting that is basically giving the parents a second vote! And let alone having them drinking and getting married is just an outrage. An interesting view that another student laid out to the table was that he believes sixteen year olds should be able to vote because if they are able to drive they should be able to vote and he said his reasons for thinking that is because "they are Americans!" Look forth for more post.