tombi123 said:
teenagers will drink whether its legal or not. Lowering the age just means they will drink in a safe environment. There are dumb people at all ages. |
So where do we draw the line? People make this same argument for dropping the age limit in the U.S. to 18.
13? 10? 8? Why is 16 a better limit than those?
I could give a shit what people do to themselves. They can use whatever kind of drugs they want as long as they don't start committing crimes and infringing on other people's rights.
But it is true that alcohol is a very dangerous drug and there are legitimate health reasons for not allowing people to drink it until they are an adult. Your biochemistry is more stable once you reach adulthood and you usually weigh more so are much less likely to get alcohol poisoning or cause premature harm to your vital organs.
Hell, I don't give a shit if people smoke pot when they are 10 because its not physically dangerous and you can't OD on it. Not to mention it doesn't cause sociall destructive behavior like alcohol does. But alcohol is one of the more dangerous drugs out there even though it is legal. Responsible for all kinds of violence and increased incidence of rape.
Not to mention 18 is a good cutoff because you can be held legally responsible for your actions (at least in the states). The slate essentially gets wiped clean when you become and adult and you are held less legally accountable as a minor. And people in the 16-25 range are already shitty fucking drivers as it is.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
