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View Poll Results: What should the legal drinking age be?
16 1 5.26%
18 9 47.37%
21 5 26.32%
25 1 5.26%
No legal limit 3 15.79%
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Old 08-19-2008, 10:06 PM
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Based on human nature's need to want everything that's illegal I say its counterproductive to keep the age at 21.
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Old 08-21-2008, 06:44 PM
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I was scrolling around and found this, it's a real shame that the U.S. is one of the few countries in the world with a drinking age at 21 while everyone else is at 18 or none and seems just fine. Even teenagers in Iraq can have it more legally before us.
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I'm going for 18. Anyway, most drink at 14.
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I was scrolling around and found this, it's a real shame that the U.S. is one of the few countries in the world with a drinking age at 21 while everyone else is at 18 or none and seems just fine. Even teenagers in Iraq can have it more legally before us.
In Britain it is low as well.

And in Britain, there's a lot less crime than there is here.
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The age of 21 is not picked because of behavior, it is because of the maturaty of the human liver (which processes the alcohol).
I've never heard that one before. Do you have a copy of the law where it states that's why they picked 21?

When I was 18 in the 80s the drinking age was 18. If you think people are adult enough to vote and go to war, then they are old enough to drink.

If 18 is too young to drink then raise the age to join the military and to vote too. Make it fair.

If they can try an 18 year old as an adult in court, but that 18 year old isn't adult enough to drink alcohol, the system is screwed up IMHO.
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I've never heard that one before. Do you have a copy of the law where it states that's why they picked 21?
They don't put reasons into the laws. Pick up an anatomy book, while most organs mature at childhood (like the kidneys and heart), some don't mature until later in life, like the liver (approx 21) and the brain (approx 23).

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When I was 18 in the 80s the drinking age was 18. If you think people are adult enough to vote and go to war, then they are old enough to drink.

If 18 is too young to drink then raise the age to join the military and to vote too. Make it fair.

If they can try an 18 year old as an adult in court, but that 18 year old isn't adult enough to drink alcohol, the system is screwed up IMHO.
It's not about what is "fair," it is about what is physically happening with the human body. Sorry that life is not fair. Whether they change the age limit or not that does not effect how your body develops.
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They don't put reasons into the laws. Pick up an anatomy book, while most organs mature at childhood (like the kidneys and heart), some don't mature until later in life, like the liver (approx 21) and the brain (approx 23).
Many brains don't mature until the 40's

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It's not about what is "fair," it is about what is physically happening with the human body. Sorry that life is not fair. Whether they change the age limit or not that does not effect how your body develops.
That is not a function of the government.
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I've never heard that one before. Do you have a copy of the law where it states that's why they picked 21?

When I was 18 in the 80s the drinking age was 18. If you think people are adult enough to vote and go to war, then they are old enough to drink.

If 18 is too young to drink then raise the age to join the military and to vote too. Make it fair.

If they can try an 18 year old as an adult in court, but that 18 year old isn't adult enough to drink alcohol, the system is screwed up IMHO.
Given that the Demoncrats tried to extend the definition of "children" to include 25 year-olds in that vile SCHIP legislation that Bush rightly vetoed (one of the few things he did right), and given that in many states these youngsters are still considered "children" for child support purposes through age 21 (unless they fall within strict definitions of "self-supporting"), don't be surprised if someday the age of majority (the legal age at which one becomes an adult) is raised to 21.
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They don't put reasons into the laws. Pick up an anatomy book, while most organs mature at childhood (like the kidneys and heart), some don't mature until later in life, like the liver (approx 21) and the brain (approx 23).
When they make laws they give reasons for them. Can you show us the documents that give that reason? I've never heard of that reason before. Prove your statement.
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That is not a function of the government.

It is to the right wingers who want to inflict their morality and religion and heavy handed ideals on the rest of us. They want to control a woman's uterus, a gay man's sex life, and a comatose dying woman's time of death.
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