When you bring the ‘military’ argument into the discussion you lose the case.
In the military you are expected to follow the rules. All the rules, not the ones you like. You dont get to ignore the rules you don’t like.
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There you go again. You avoid the question and try to change the topic.
The military was mentioned in the article, as was the age 18. You brought up 14 year olds and 16 year olds.
Do you want to raise the age for all ‘adult’ activities to 21 or is it just drinking?
It’s a rather easy question and can be answered by a yes or no.
Alcohol is a tough one. I’m an alcoholic, working on twenty years sober.
I came up in the libertine early seventies, when the drinking age was lowered for Vietnam. I had places where I could buy it at fifteen, because I was six feet tall. A lot of society wanted to get us off the nasty drugs of the late sixties and onto the legal drug, alcohol.
Many of my peers became alcoholics. Others didn’t. With some in the eighteen to twenty one age group, it’s just the party years.
I opposed Reagan raising the drinking age. I was already twenty one, but I’ve always thought it strange that you can vote and join the military at eighteen, but still not drink. I do think we should make up our minds and make everything either 18 or 21.
Bottom line question, will it result in more or fewer alcohol related deaths because of the increase in youth drinking?