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| adjl 06/07/21 2:05:14 PM #38: | Aaaand Sunny's gone full pedo. Can't say I expected this topic to go that way. Mead posted... Lowering the drinking age is a terrible idea, for alcohol the minimum age to purchase should really be 25 I've really never been a fan of a hard cutoff for drinking ages. It may cut down on minors drinking (although I very much question any such statistics, given that they're generally based on self-reporting, and that's inevitably going to be under-reported for stuff that's illegal), but it means that the ones that do drink do so in secret and without supervision. Permitting supervised drinking at a much younger age (probably 16, possibly 14) would give them an opportunity to learn how to drink responsibly, rather than figuring it out from their peers. Obviously, that's far from perfect, given that not every eligible supervisor is going to be a good role model in that regard, but I think that stands a much better chance of teaching people healthy drinking habits than leaving them to develop that on their own. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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