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But you’ll find that the longer the drinking age has been at 21 years, the more most people agree with it.

It doesn’t matter if it’s safety restraints, drinking age, national sovereignty, or socialist programs, a key component to boiling the frog is social/cultural acclimation. People agree with the warmer water after it’s been set.

The question is, are we going towards a better place?

Are we going toward some more civilized utopia where everyone is unable to be threats to themselves, liberated to attain a state of perpetual lack of need, or some sort of cross between Wall-E and the Matrix where your worth is determined by a higher power and you’re protected based only upon that.

"Are we going toward some more civilized utopia where everyone is unable to be threats to themselves, liberated to attain a state of perpetual lack of need"

It's a slippery slope to be sure. My test is this, if you are just a threat to yourself then have at it. If you want to be an idiot and kill yourself with (fill in the blank). However, if what you are doing is a threat to not only yourself but others then it's not ok. It's a public safety issue.

When the drinking age was 18 in some states, you still weren't allowed to drive drunk. It just meant that 18 year olds can have a beer. I still believe that if you can fight and die for your country at 18 you should be able to have a beer at 18.

Let's take the opiod/Fentynal epidemic in our country right now. One use of Fentynal and you can be O.D'ing. If all it was is you offing yourself by overdosing on opiods that would be one thing. However, we as a society are saying that we are going to do everything we can to save you. We're not going to leave you to just die in the streets. If that's the case, then we should be able to regulate your opiod abuse. Put simpler, if you expect us to come and save you from overdosing, then we (society) expect some things as well. This crisis is overloading our medical system. There are instances in this country where people are not getting assistance (heart attacks, etc..) because all of the ambulances are out responding to overdoses in an area.