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Going to Toronto, Canada sometime next year.
Cake Faice:
--- Quote from: Monorail Cat on September 17, 2014, 09:16:35 PM ---I did an 18-page research paper on this issue. Back in the 80s when the MDA was lowered to 18, rates of teen deaths, car accidents, and alcohol poisoning increased by quite a lot. Restored it to 21, and the rates lowered. Not to mention that at young ages, alcohol use increases chance of suicide, alcohol problems later in life, and other shit.
Of course if you don't abuse it, these things are unlikely to happen. However, when 18-year-olds have legal access to alcohol, they are much more likely to abuse it.
Another fact: Right now in America, where do the 18-year-olds get their alcohol? They get it from the legal people they know. For them, it's easier to get alcohol than it is for younger kids, like 14-year-olds. Well, when you lower the MDA to 18, the 14-year-olds will have easier access to alcohol than they had ever had before.
Sure, other countries have lower MDAs and everything's alright, not as many people get in wrecks, etc. But that is because it's been that way for a very long time. They are used to it. In America, if the MDA is 18, they wouldn't know how to handle it. Everyone who now had legal access would be very likely to abuse it, because it's a new-found freedom.
If America started with its MDA at 18, as I believe it should have, it would not be a problem like it would be if it were changed today. That's what should have happened.
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Ah yes, so it makes perfect sense that in the event of a war, I'm mentally responsible and mature enough to get drafted and die for a country that I can't even enjoy a beer in. Smoking also screws up your body and is one of the top attributing causes to cancer and other related illnesses, but hey you can do that when you're 18. Let alone own a gun legally. Of course now today shit would get wrecked because every 18 year old will be drinking up a storm but like you said, it wouldn't have been a problem if we started out like everyone else. I dunno how the hell MADD managed pull enough funds to lobby in the government, but every time I see the name of that spastic group I get slightly pissed. Like :ainsley:
Tezuni:
Nice Axule, that is pretty exciting. I'm sure you'll love it.
--- Quote from: Monorail Cat on September 17, 2014, 09:16:35 PM ---Another fact: Right now in America, where do the 18-year-olds get their alcohol? They get it from the legal people they know. For them, it's easier to get alcohol than it is for younger kids, like 14-year-olds. Well, when you lower the MDA to 18, the 14-year-olds will have easier access to alcohol than they had ever had before.
Sure, other countries have lower MDAs and everything's alright, not as many people get in wrecks, etc. But that is because it's been that way for a very long time. They are used to it. In America, if the MDA is 18, they wouldn't know how to handle it. Everyone who now had legal access would be very likely to abuse it, because it's a new-found freedom.
If America started with its MDA at 18, as I believe it should have, it would not be a problem like it would be if it were changed today. That's what should have happened.
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Nice points, hadn't thought of 18 year old HS seniors supplying to underclassmen before.
--- Quote from: Cake Faice on September 18, 2014, 09:35:40 PM ---Ah yes, so it makes perfect sense that in the event of a war, I'm mentally responsible and mature enough to get drafted and die for a country that I can't even enjoy a beer in. Smoking also screws up your body and is one of the top attributing causes to cancer and other related illnesses, but hey you can do that when you're 18. Let alone own a gun legally. Of course now today shit would get wrecked because every 18 year old will be drinking up a storm but like you said, it wouldn't have been a problem if we started out like everyone else. I dunno how the hell MADD managed pull enough funds to lobby in the government, but every time I see the name of that spastic group I get slightly pissed. Like :ainsley:
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For the most part, an 18 year old male is pretty physically and mentally capable. Warfare is not really comparable to alcohol. There's more to consider like the point mono brought up with HS seniors supplying to underclassmen.
TehHank:
God bless Great Britain.
Ἆxule:
--- Quote from: TehHank on September 24, 2014, 01:16:10 AM ---
God bless Great Britain.
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I'm more a fun fan of Guinness
Cake Faice:
--- Quote from: Tezuni on September 23, 2014, 09:24:56 PM ---Warfare is not really comparable to alcohol.
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The action itself isn't, but the physiology and judgment level behind it far surpasses the physiology and judgment level behind alcohol consequence.
If the government thinks anyone 18-25 has a mental capacity that can handle the consequences of warfare, then it makes absolutely 0 sense that you can't enjoy a beer every now and then until you're 21.
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