By lowering the drinking age the colleges remove all liability from their administrations for alcohol related deaths.
To hell with the students is their mantra.
Why not let the underage drive too. 14 sounds like a good age to drive. Get them a pillow so they can see over the steering wheel.
And what could be better for the old goats who troll the bars looking for young girls. Just let them drink, they’re easier prey.
You hit the nail on the head.
Perhaps we should do away with age limits for anything. If 18 is old enough, why not 16? If 16 is old enough, why not 14? Etc...
susie
14 can drive farm equipment.
Actually lowering the drinking age wouldn’t have any effect at all on colleges liability for alcohol related deaths. Most of the laws that make them liable have nothing to do with the age of the drinker, server responsibility laws are just as applicable when the drinker is 38 as when they’re 18.
What it would do is be a step towards ending our painfully idiotic phased adulthood. It’s just plain stupid that in this country you can vote and fight in a war but not get a freaking beer.
And as for the old goats. If the young girl is over 18 they’re legal, drunk or sober. Maybe it would be a little harder for the old goat since the 18 year old would be able to buy her own drink instead of asking some old goat to buy it for her.
A soldier who’s mature enough to make decisions in a combat zone is more than mature enough to drink a beer when he comes home, regardless of his age.
When you change the argument to fight it, you show the weakness of your argument.
No one mentioned 14 or 16 y/o’s.
At 18, a person is an adult for everything except buying and drinking alcohol.
Why are you for this prohibition? Do you want to raise the age of consent for marriage and for military service to 21 also?
Because those young girls sure don't drink now, do they? I'm constantly flabbergasted by the "rugged individualist conservatives" I see in these prohibition threads.
Bingo! No more answers, we have a winner.
It's not some lofty ideal to be discussed. It's a way to save money on liability.