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Originally posted by 33girl
This whole country needs to rethink its puritanical attitude on alcohol.

We need to educate our children how to enjoy alcohol responsibly, how to know when you've had enough, and how not to use it as a badge of honor or coolness or what have you. We need to show our children that drinking is not a crime - no matter what the age - but drinking irresponsibly is. We need to do whatever it takes to remove the "forbidden fruit" aspect of alcohol. We need to educate on this as certainly as we educate kids on how to escape a burning building, how to avoid abduction and how to drive.

The "stay far far away from alcohol until you turn 21, and then automatically know what you're doing" obviously doesn't work. How much longer do we have to put up with it and how many more deaths have to happen before everyone realizes that our present system goes completely against a normal learning process for adolescents and young adults?

Co-sign, I have felt this way for a very long time.