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Patrick:
Bonus: at Bitburg Air Force Base in Germany, you can buy alcohol on post at the age of 18. My sister still has the ration card to prove it.
Is it just me or does something smell really goddamn fishy there.
Lines:
The only thing I see happening by lowering the drinking age is to give teenagers a reason to be more stupid. Really. Think about it. The general populous of your average teenager is stupid enough, especially in the US. Getting everything (license, voting, drinking, legally adult, etc.) at 18 would make sense, but allowing alcohol at 16 is not a good idea IMO. (No offense to the teens on this forum, I just don't like the teens in my area. Most of you on here are cool, but ones I've met, particularly ones I went to school with, I would not trust with a lower drinking age.)
Also, I had my first hangover when I was...19? (Meaning the 3rd time I'd ever drank.) It didn't turn me off alcohol, it just made me realize the importance of drinking lots of water before bed.
Gemmwah:
I sat here writing a big essay-type post about teenage drinking and the like, but realised it made me sound like my mother, and feel twice as old.
Basically, the limits shouldn't be moved because they're not wrong.
Cam:
Well, yeah, I think 16 would be premature. It just doesn't seem to add up that you can do every thing aside from drink at eighteen. Supposedly, people are claiming that it has saved lives. I think it is very likely true. Apparently, people on the opposite side of the debate are saying it is a result of the cars being better constructed and better safety regulation.
For me, put in the context of logic other responsibilities and rights gained at eighteen, it just doesn't make sense to have the drinking age at twenty-one, even though, it might technically be saving lives.
I think I am going to go home and enjoy a beer and contemplate how much of a bastard that makes me.
Alex C:
You guys have no idea how disappointed I am that this isn't tangentially related to Paul Gilbert's last studio album.
I love making fun of shredders.
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