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At 5/25/06 11:02 PM, Steel_Reserve wrote: That's where the parents come in.
If people raise their kids to obey laws, they will.

I was raised in a strongly religious family who didn't believe in sex before marriage and drinking and all the seven deadly sins crap.....what happened?

i began drinking at 12, having sex a 13, had a kid when i was 14.......the point is in the end kids grow up to be individuals it doesn't matter how the parents have raised them...they did the best they could it then boils down to the individual.

Kids can also be arrested and pushed into community service for breaking laws.

Yes this is true but who is there to enforce this?....last i heard it was upto parents discreetion as to the punishment of their children

Why not? If 18 year olds buy beer for 16 year olds, they will be punished with fines and imprisonment.

How can this be enforced?.....You have 20 - 30 year olds buying beer for underage kids....kids already have a napolean complex....lower the drinking age just means they can go and get the beer themselves. it makes no difference

Cops have always used the help of children to uncover people who illegally sell or distribute controlled substances like alcohol and tobacco. It's simple. Cop has minor attempt to acquire alcohol or tobacco from legal adult, and if said legal adult complies, adult is implicated in the crime and arrested.

they have that here as well but not all children have those kind of morals......drug and alcohol companies will sell their stock to anyone who is willing to pay...it's all about money and not the livelihood of the kids they're harming....i'm not surprised that the police use children in order to do this.

And what else are those representatives going to do, if they can't write laws for people? NOTHING. That's all most of them are good for. So they pass laws that make common sense, or we vote them out of office. And they wind up in the unemployment rolls. Maybe. I dunno.

ok i'll agree with you there

I see it this way, 18 = old enough to go off to war, to fight and possibly die for your country. But not old enough to drink? Something has to be done about that. At the very least, if you get sent off to war, you should be given a special ID that says you can have a drink before 21.

At 5/28/06 09:33 PM, Monocrom wrote: I see it this way, 18 = old enough to go off to war, to fight and possibly die for your country. But not old enough to drink? Something has to be done about that. At the very least, if you get sent off to war, you should be given a special ID that says you can have a drink before 21.

right..........the last thing we need is drunk soliders!

At 5/28/06 09:47 PM, Dargon_Luster wrote: right..........the last thing we need is drunk soliders!

Drinking doesn't always = drunk. I'm just saying it's retarded that an 18 year-old is trusted with an assault rifle, explosives, and millions of dollars worth of military equipment and vehicles. But he's not trusted with a bottle of beer??

At 5/28/06 10:05 PM, Monocrom wrote:

Drinking doesn't always = drunk. I'm just saying it's retarded that an 18 year-old is trusted with an assault rifle, explosives, and millions of dollars worth of military equipment and vehicles. But he's not trusted with a bottle of beer??

your brain is still developing during your teenage years, alcohol is a depressant it messes with your neurotransmitters...it wouldn't be wise for a solider to drink it could cloud his vision

I agree

Not only can you go to war at 18, you can get drafted!

I think alcohol should be abolished. Many horrid things happen to people who drink ber at all ages,and to say that people cannot drink because they are young is a hypocracy.

I wouldn't mind if alcohol was made illegal. Most 21 year olds aren't responsible enough. Alcohol screws up your mind, and it kills people every day.
Alcohol does not solve problems. Some people get addicted, just like a drug. Marijuana and cocaine are illegal. Why isn't alcohol?
Alcohol will never get you a girl, like it says on TV. It'll only make you too drunk to walk.
I'd support raising the drinking age. Alcohol tastes terrible. People always say "I wanna drink," even though they've never tasted any. People gulp it down, but it tastes terrible. 100x worse than mediciene.
I doubt I'll be drinking. I've got a life ahead of me, and I won't screw up like others.
Don't succumb to alcohol just to look cool. You may look cool while drinking, but the police won't buy that when they haul your sorry ass to jail for killing 3 people in a DUI incident. It's not a car accident. It's a car murder.
The drinking age should be 200, and if someone lives that long then they'd be mature enough to have some.
Raise your glass to a better future! Then again, put it down.