UGa: “Alcohol should be covered by the meal plan.”

[AlphaFrog]

Originally posted by Rudey
Actually we fight wars out of necessity. At the end of the day if you're 5 years old or 25, if someone is threatening your life many people understand why you would fight back. We drink alcohol for pleasure. The two are very different.

How many 18 year olds that go into the military are having their life threatened (on a military level)? What are they fighting back against? And your saying that just because a 5 year old has the capacity to know to fight back when threatened, they are capable of making the decsion to join the armed forces??

Originally posted by Rudey
Additionally, different tasks take different levels of aptitude for decision making. Not all questions easily find answers at the magic age of 21 or 25 or 30. Some questions can be answered quite easily at a very young age.

So are you implying that the question of whether to enlist is easy, and how much and when to drink is hard?? I realize that different tasks take different aptitudes, and there is not a magic age, but what makes 18 LEGALLY the magic age for enlisting and 21 LEGALLY the magic age for drinking? Whether you agree or not, I believe 33 was stating her opinion, that 18 is not a good age for people to make that decsion.

Originally posted by Rudey
So that link makes no sense. In the future, just let your sister talk.

It's not saying drinking=enlisting. The comparitive is mental capacity of an 18 year old, if they aren't able to make good choices concerning alcohol, which this and several other articles show, how are they supposed to make good choices when it comes to shooting someone??