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From: Meth@Amphetamin.com
On 4/22/2023 8:56 PM, Clarence Callahan wrote:
> On 4/22/2023 6:31 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>> rbowman wrote in news:kaiserFlrscU1
>> @mid.individual.net:
>>
>>> On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:24:47 +0000, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Skeeter wrote in
>>>> news:MPG.3eadaa0d90dd88f898c4e8 @usnews.blocknews.net:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <1nj64i9de6odi8h9qpteorjo6p7k27f025@4ax.com>,
>>>>> joelcrump@gmail.com says...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Governor Swill wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Look, if you make the drinking age 18, they will buy it for their
>>>>>>>> minor peers, period, you act like it was some kind of
>>>>>>>> experiment, to
>>>>>>>> see if they would or not, well duh, they would. The 21 age is,
>>>>>>>> nevertheless, a fucking joke, it's the exception to actually wait
>>>>>>>> that long.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a great idea, Joel. Shut the fuck up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, I will not, because I am right. I have a divine wisdom, being
>>>>>> who
>>>>>> I am, for all my faults, and there are many, but there
>>>>>> nevertheless is
>>>>>> something special about me, that is able to discern what would really
>>>>>> be *right*, to do, from a legal point of view. Creating a fictional
>>>>>> drinking age, i.e. 21, is simply not right.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's "fictional" about it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you think someone turning
>>>> 21 magically acquires a maturity they didn't have the week before?
>>>
>>> When I was a teen in NYS the drinking age was 18 and the voting age was
>>> 21. Some miracle of human development must have occurred to cause the
>>> reversal.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Young enough to join the army, young
>> enough to handle an M16 but too young to
>> handle a beer. Gads.
>
> If I ruled the country:
>
> * vote at 18
> * military conscription, if at all, at 23 (but if I ruled the country,
> there would be no conscription, ever)
> * alcohol at 25
>
> I originally was skeptical of this notion that the brain doesn't finish
> its complete physical development until age 25, and that alcohol can
> adversely affect it, but I have become persuaded of it. We obviously
> are going to have *some* minimum age for alcohol; the only question is
> where to draw the line. I would draw it at 25. No one is going to be
> harmed by that, and many likely would be helped.
Ummmm? Just when is your brain going to develop? Inquiring minds want to
know.
>
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