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Scandanavian War Machine:
basically if drive drunk, you are a fucking idiot no matter how old you are and lowering the drinking age would weed out these obviously inferior genetic specimens before they can reproduce. obviously, there will be collateral damage in accidents (my grandpa was killed by a drunk driver, unfortunately) but that's a risk i'm willing to take for the betterment of mankind.
if you're not prepared to take that risk, you are a freedom-hating commie.
Patrick:
I don't think that society (and the law) saying teenagers are stupid is really constructive. If anything that's going to make more of them just say "Fuck you" and drink illegally.
The thing is, why do you think there's such a problem with underage people drinking? Because the law is there, they're of the age where rebellion is the only way they know how to express themselves, and even though excess ain't rebellion, it's excess when you're not allowed to even have a smidge that makes it rebellion. If you take away something to rebel against, such as drinking laws, young'uns will be less likely to rebel against it.
Seriously, how many people in here who've consumed alcohol underage would've ever done it if it didn't mean hiding something from The Man? That is the only reason I drank in Alaska this summer at all.
Lines:
I drank out of curiosity, not because of rebellion. I was all like, "huh, why do people like this stuff? *sip* No really, why do people like this stuff?"
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 11 Mar 2008, 17:11 ---I am a freedom-hating commie.
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Scandanavian War Machine:
damn! she saw through my cleverly veiled admission of communist tendencies!
jhocking:
The first time I drank alcohol, I remember my motivation was largely because of the lame-ness of the other people at the party. Specifically, I wasn't planning to drink at first, but then I noticed that other people weren't actually finishing their beers and so there was a table of quarter full beers. This annoyed me so much that I was compelled to finish off all the beers; by the time I was done I was quite sick and ended up puking.
Incidentally, prior to this night I had a crush on the older sister of the girl who's house this party was at. The next day the older sister was actually impressed because I drank so much that I threw up. After that, I didn't have a crush on her anymore. Ironic huh? If she thought what I'd done was disgusting and stupid, I'd still have a crush on her, but I was turned off because she was impressed by something I was embarrassed about.
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