What wasn't "pretty" about it? We were grown, working adults that bought beer when we wanted to. Makes perfect sense to me.
‘The term ‘adults’ is subjective, arbitrary and case dependent.
If a government set the age of an adult at 12 would that mean that 12 year old are ready to make decisions on sex?
That sounds like a train wreck to me.
And the 18 year old drinking age was a train wreck. It came out of the military draft.