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| Dikitain 06/07/21 1:24:48 PM #25: | Nichtcrawler X posted... Lowering the drinking age would make more sense.Part of the problem with that is age laws are less about fairness and more about responsibility and statistics. Specifically, the drinking age one is because when the drinking age is 18 the number of drunk driving accidents increase by a large margin. https://one.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/feweryoungdrivers/iv__what_caused.htm So really the only way the drinking age is going to lower to 18 again is if driving becomes a non-issue (likely a multi-decade and multi-trillion dollar thing, so not in our lifetimes), or if some state lowers the age to 18, forgoing all federal funding that keeping the age at 21 gives them, and in 10-20 years it is determined there was no change in drunk driving incidents. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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