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responsibility
drinking age laws, whether created for some ulterior motive or not (i.e. federal funding or withholding it) ... they are the laws that must be complied with ... at least for now.
to me it's a metabolic or physiological thing .... with drinking games, ice luges, funnels and long tubes... whatever... metabollically they don't realize the full effect of the alcohol consumption until AFTER they've consumed ALOT. and then it is too late, or nearly too late. (unfortunately, as an adviser, I had to learn about certain drinking games and ice luges from pictures posted on the internet !!! ... unfortunately now I know how to play flip cup races and how to drink from an ice luge ... when I really didn't want to know about such things... ... ps... ice luges are easy to buy from wedding caterers ... at weddings the ice blocks are used for fancy carvings and fountains ... uncarved ones are sold fairly cheap... then for the party, channels are carved into... into the shape of a luge run... and then alcohol is poured from the top, it runs down the luge, and into the mouth of someone who has pressed their mouth and lips against the ice... makes the alcohol nice and cold... I guess)
personally, I do think that there's a difference in the capacity to accept responsibility .... of drinking vs operating heavy machinery in the military .... that someone 19 or 20 can be fully aware of their minds and their capabilities to fight for their country, or operate a tank .... but they may not be aware of what their bodies can physically handle before it's in danger.
There is a film out there, saw it recently, it was produced by PBS. It's being circulated to Greek Life directors ... it's about the Plattsburg NY tragedy. plenty of gory details are shown....
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