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Originally posted by 33girl
I can't believe I have to explain this.
Enlisting - which is a MUCH BIGGER DEAL than being allowed to have a drink IMO - is allowed at 18. Therefore it's stupid to disallow someone from drinking. It's also stupid to not allow an 18 year old to rent a hotel room or rent a car (2 things which happen regularly). If we are going to say 18 = adult, it should equal adult for everything, not just things that are politically correct.
The drinking age is not "set by the surgeon general" at 21 - if that was the case it would change from SG to SG, and it would be a federal law, which it's not. The states which had a lower drinking age changed it due to political pressure from extremist groups like MADD and due to the Federal Highway Funding Act, which withheld funds from states who didn't have a 21 drinking age. Maybe there's something somewhere that says 21 is the "magic age" at which your liver is fully developed, if so link please.
I've TAKEN the ASVAB. I apparently did so well on it that recruiters kept calling me and calling me, even though I can't think of anyone less suited for military service than me and anyone who wanted to go into it less. So much for the infallibility of that test.
When surgeons study to be surgeons, they don't just read books on it. They practice on corpses and later, on real humans, with a more skilled surgeon watching in case anything goes wrong. We don't expect them to read books and nothing else for 8 years and then do their first open heart surgery. Would you go to a surgeon like that? I wouldn't. We expect that of teenagers with the drinking laws, though. They're not allowed to have a drop of alcohol, they're not allowed to be around it, but when they're 21 they're supposed to magically know how it works, what their limit is, etc. If every single person who drinks underage stopped, it wouldn't stop binge drinking or people dying or barfing or anything like that. It would just make it happen at 21. Then we'd say 21 year olds are too immature to handle it, so it needs to be 23. And round and round, till the drinking age is 75 or so.
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Did you take the ASVAB for shits and giggles? Why take it if you are not "suited" for the military. And I didn't say that 21 was some magical number. It was determined through medical experts that many or your functioning organs, including your liver, become fully developed at or closely near that age. Why would they just throw out the age of 21 to a bunch of activists from MADD and the Highway Commission? And I know about the withheld funds, but thanks anyways. If you did well on the test, ofcourse they are going to call you, have common sense. It appears that you have a sever lack there of. Thank you for your essay on becoming a doctor. There are about seven of them in my family, I am quite aware of what it takes to practice medicine. How that pertains to some drunk kid I have no idea. Out of all of my friends, I do not know one that has had a problem with drinking or knowing his limitations. Do you know why? It is because of their upbringing. Their parents and my parents had the common sense to teach me how to socially drink and how to know my limitations before I went off to college. I would say that parents who shelter their children and do not teach them how to function in certain situations are just as responsible as anyone else. That is just my opinion. I also advocate a drinking age of 18. I also think that if you can go to war, you can drink a beer. I just look at it in a completely different perspective than some of the mindless crap that I have read on here.
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