I suppose I don't think an eighteen year old is an adult. And 18-year-old is still very dependant on their parents. I don't consider myself to be an adult and I certainly don't consider many of my friends as being close to adulthood.
My peers drink if they want to drink, and have been for years. The "few idiots" that you believe are engaging in poor actions are, in reality, the vast majority of high-schoolers. None of my friends are eighteen yet, so unless you're suggesting it be reduced to 16, they're all criminals whether...
So you would have it reduced now under the assumption that making the act of drinking alcohol less criminal would make teenagers less interested in it?
Who's to say that the age limits for voting, smoking, and joining the army shouldn't be raised?
There are millions of different things that we could change to alleviate our national debt or crowded prisons.
The point is that alcohol abuse is (1), as you've already admitted, commonly commited...
And you're suggesting that the United States can change its culture and become more responsible as quickly as we can get the age limit changed?
The U.S. doesn't change. I am one of those pessimists that believes that alcohol will always be abused, if not by the masses then by a significant...
This is precisely why I don't support making the drinking age younger, Napalm. In theory, the ~5 year period that kids start drinking before it's legal could carry over to that younger age limit.
Although I must admit that my opinion on this is quite selfish. I don't drink, so I am most...
Lewi, are you talking about what Dr. Mario is? If so, an ellipsis (...) is necessary to clarify that there is more to be said that you've left out.
And I meant in writing. Slang can be used to defend the fact that anything can make sense to at least one person. Not only that, but things can be...