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Originally Posted by louielouie2000
In my opinion, this does younger people no favors... it postpones growing up and learning to control yourself. It puts this huge taboo around drinking and glorifies bingeing. The US still very much has inner conflict between it's puritanical roots and being more realistic about human nature. For instance, you can join the military and die for your country at age 18 here... but you can't buy an alcoholic beverage until the age of 21. How f***ed up is that?!
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I agree 100% with each of these points - especially the highlighted part. Similarly in the UK, you can't drink until 18 but can marry and join the army (big, life altering decisions) at 16. I'm not saying the drinking age should be lowered (far from it) but perhaps the others should be brought in line with this. It just makes no sense.