[Al Gator]

"But when the law forces adults to drink illegally behind closed doors, the situation is ripe for abuse."

In days gone by, you have a point. But you forget that today's kids were never taught responsibility or consequence.

We spared the rod and created a bunch of imbeciles who think nothing of thumbing their nose at authority.

We drank at 18. Our mothers made sure we didn't leave the house till we ate. That was in the '60s.

If we got caught underage drinking, we paid the $36.50 fine. AND THEN WE LAID VERY LOW. One does not taunt the system when one is being watched. But then again we were taught consequence.

Kids today are just stupid. And their parents are to blame for that.

These idiots thought they could do whatever the hell they wanted, because their idiot mothers "enabled" them.

They got less than what they deserved.

NO MERCY from this end.

[Labyrinthos]

In days gone by, you have a point. But you forget that today's kids were never taught responsibility...

That's because we don't allow them to exercise responsibility. The 21 year old drinking age is a perfect example. Adults today also have a nasty habit of micromanaging every second of their childrens' time rather than allowing them to supervise their own games, make their own rules, and solve their own disputes. I can recall playing pick-up baseball in the cow fields as a kid. We didn't have adults to select the teams or call balls and stikes. We came up with our own rules and solved our own problems. For example, if someone hit the ball too close to a cow to field cleanly, that was a ground rule double. If someone actually hit a cow with the ball on the fly, that was a home run.

[AmericaUnited]

AND THEN WE LAID VERY LOW. ... Kids today are just stupid. And their parents are to blame for that

Exactly. In my day, if you gave an older kid the finger or told them to go f themselves, you were dead meat, toast! Today, these little brats do that kind of thing with a cocky impunity. I say nail em and nail em hard.

[Joe Miner]

We drank at 18. Our mothers made sure we didn't leave the house till we ate. That was in the '60s.

Oh yea, the 60's youth were such upstanding model citizens. Hippies, drugs, antiwar protests were all a dream, huh?.

Every generation bemoans the state of the youth as they age; out of jealousy I guess.

[JeffAtlanta]

In days gone by, you have a point. But you forget that today's kids were never taught responsibility or consequence.

Classic old fogey syndrome.