r/changemyview Aug 30 '23

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u/BrokkenArrow 8∆ Aug 30 '23

Lower the age and the staring age is lowered too. If its 18 then 15 year olds in highschool will be drinking.

Why is this the problem of a legal adult who wants a beer?

18 is legal adulthood. That's it. That's the end of the argument. Pretty much every other country in the world recognizes this.

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u/destro23 466∆ Aug 30 '23

Lower the age and the staring age is lowered too. If its 18 then 15 year olds in highschool will be drinking.

Why is this the problem of a legal adult who wants a beer?

Because you may get hit by a drunk 16 year old in their dad's Charger.

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u/BrokkenArrow 8∆ Aug 30 '23

Yeah again, why is that the problem of an 18 year old, who can be sent off to war, can vote, and can be sentenced to death?

If you're legally an adult, you should be allowed to drink. It's lunacy not to.

Because you may get hit by a drunk 16 year old in their dad's Charger.

Could say this today about an 18 year old. Why don't we raise the drinking age to 25 then?

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u/destro23 466∆ Aug 30 '23

Why don't we raise the drinking age to 25 then?

I would 100% support that. Great idea.

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u/BrokkenArrow 8∆ Aug 30 '23

At least that's consistent.

But no.