Posted on 09/09/2008 2:29:35 PM PDT by neverdem
By lowering the drinking age the colleges remove all liability from their administrations for alcohol related deaths.
To hell with the students is their mantra.
Why not let the underage drive too. 14 sounds like a good age to drive. Get them a pillow so they can see over the steering wheel.
And what could be better for the old goats who troll the bars looking for young girls. Just let them drink, they’re easier prey.
Unenforceable prohibitions, prohibited only because it has been declared illegal and not because it is intrinsically evil, only serves to foster contempt for law.
I’m not even sure why there IS a drinking age. I’ve been drinking since my dad would give me a beer starting when I was about 8 and I’ve never been an alcoholic, drunk driver, etc. Seems like the government oversteps their jurisdiction on this one, IMHO.
Amazingly, this is one area where liberals aren’t clamoring for us to emulate the sopposedly enlightened Euros. Go figure.
You hit the nail on the head.
Perhaps we should do away with age limits for anything. If 18 is old enough, why not 16? If 16 is old enough, why not 14? Etc...
susie
Agreed.
Once again two subsets of the Democratic Party will have divergent opinions on an issue.
I see a trade in the works.
A lower drinking age for a higher driving age, thereby setting the age of consent at 18 across the board.
The driving age should be 18 regardless of what the drinking age is.
Just glad I don’t drink.
If you are old enough to put your life on the line for America’s freedom and safety, then you are old enough to have a drink.
At 18 you are a legal adult. If you are out of the house, then go for it.
I’m fine with that, but the 21 drinking age is an abject farce and an outright failure.
14 can drive farm equipment.
Actually lowering the drinking age wouldn’t have any effect at all on colleges liability for alcohol related deaths. Most of the laws that make them liable have nothing to do with the age of the drinker, server responsibility laws are just as applicable when the drinker is 38 as when they’re 18.
What it would do is be a step towards ending our painfully idiotic phased adulthood. It’s just plain stupid that in this country you can vote and fight in a war but not get a freaking beer.
And as for the old goats. If the young girl is over 18 they’re legal, drunk or sober. Maybe it would be a little harder for the old goat since the 18 year old would be able to buy her own drink instead of asking some old goat to buy it for her.
I think on private property, if an adult wants to give an 18 year old a beer, they should be able to do so. Keep the purchase age at 21. Make adults legally responsible for the actions of an 18 year old. But if a dad wants to give his son a beer, that’s fine by me.
I never saw drunk Italians as I know
YOU CAN, in the privacy of your home, give YOUR CHILD, (nobody elses’s) alcohol.
That’s legal everywhere.
A soldier who’s mature enough to make decisions in a combat zone is more than mature enough to drink a beer when he comes home, regardless of his age.
Whatever age is old enough to die for your country is old enough for EVERYTHING. Pick the year you want, but make sure it’s not silly. Do you really think the guys defending your life right now in Iraq shouldn’t get a beer when they get home?
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