[TXnMA]

18-year-olds go into combat having passed through a long and rigorous training regimen on how to conduct themselves in contact with the enemy.

Unless 18-year-old drinker wannabees go through a similarly rigorous training regimen re alcohol, its effects, and how to behave re drinking, they should have no more right to drink than an untrained civilian kid does to go into combat.

[austrian]

Unless 18-year-old drinker wannabees go through a similarly rigorous training regimen re alcohol, its effects, and how to behave re drinking, they should have no more right to drink than an untrained civilian kid does to go into combat.

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sorry but do you get rigorous training about drinking when you are 21? (exept what you learned on partys before you become 21? ;-)

[DungeonMaster]

18-year-olds go into combat having passed through a long and rigorous training regimen on how to conduct themselves in contact with the enemy.

Unless 18-year-old drinker wannabees go through a similarly rigorous training regimen re alcohol, its effects, and how to behave re drinking, they should have no more right to drink than an untrained civilian kid does to go into combat.

If a person was ready to go into combat without training at 21, or if a 21 yearold receives drinking training then your argument makes sense. Since that isn't the case, your argument doesn't. Otherwise there really is nothing at all magic about 21 is there?