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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 186893" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I have mixed feelings on this issue. I think 18 is too young, mostly because it would force high schools to deal with young people who are able to legally buy and consume alcohol. I would feel differently if it were 19 year olds, I think. </p><p></p><p>I understand the professor's point of view that illicit drinking encourages drinking games and binging. Kids away from home at college who haven't had experience drinking are likely to over consume and have problems with alcohol poisonings. Bartenders are trained to know when someone has had enough and cut them off or slow them down. I don't trust a group of teenagers to responsibly monitor another teenager's drinking. Also, where you have college kids drinking illicitly, there will always be a 14 - 15 year old who comes to the party. That isn't going to happen in a bar.</p><p></p><p>None of us likes the image of our kids tying one on. But most of us don't like the image of our kids having sex or carrying a concealed weapon, so it seems unreasonable that we allow them to do that without monitoring their alcohol intake. Just my .02.</p><p></p><p>Reading DDD's note, I had to add that in our state, 18 year old girls are allowed to dance topless in bars that serve alcohol. Go figure. You're old enough to exotic dance in a room full of drunken older men, but you're not old enough to have a glass of wine with dinner?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 186893, member: 99"] I have mixed feelings on this issue. I think 18 is too young, mostly because it would force high schools to deal with young people who are able to legally buy and consume alcohol. I would feel differently if it were 19 year olds, I think. I understand the professor's point of view that illicit drinking encourages drinking games and binging. Kids away from home at college who haven't had experience drinking are likely to over consume and have problems with alcohol poisonings. Bartenders are trained to know when someone has had enough and cut them off or slow them down. I don't trust a group of teenagers to responsibly monitor another teenager's drinking. Also, where you have college kids drinking illicitly, there will always be a 14 - 15 year old who comes to the party. That isn't going to happen in a bar. None of us likes the image of our kids tying one on. But most of us don't like the image of our kids having sex or carrying a concealed weapon, so it seems unreasonable that we allow them to do that without monitoring their alcohol intake. Just my .02. Reading DDD's note, I had to add that in our state, 18 year old girls are allowed to dance topless in bars that serve alcohol. Go figure. You're old enough to exotic dance in a room full of drunken older men, but you're not old enough to have a glass of wine with dinner? [/QUOTE]
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