Re: Legal age to be served
[QUOTE=MareloboMex;7350862]Taking this thread a little off topic. Every 18,19, and 20 year old I meet drink plenty of alcohol including underage girls in the clubs. This law makes no sense to me. You are either an adult or you are not. How you can enter into legal binding contracts, work a job, join the military and give sexual consent, but you can't have a beer make no sense to me.
While other countries have various drinking ages, I have never travelled abroad and seen a drinking age enforced or anyone carded. If you want to buy drink you do. That sounds like freedom and capitalism to me.
In my humble opinion we should repeal the drinking age and let people over 18 do what they want.
MM.[/QUOTE]Agreed, MM. Only in America are adults prohibited by law from drinking alcohol.
However, as you yourself stated, young people tend to drink to excess more frequently than older drinkers. I recall that's the reason the legal age was established at 21.
I myself was drinking by age 14, at home at dinner, because my family made wine. It was not a big deal. So, for me, when I turned 18 and could drink publicly, I was not tempted to binge at all in celebration, because I'd already been drinking for several years.