Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018)
by barry-cotter on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:51AM
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Ok, let’s ban drinking for under 30s. Alcohol is clearly far more harmful than cannabis and I sincerely doubt it’s more harmful than speed or medicinal heroin, all of which we ban. If we’re going to ban things for adults why 21 and not 30?
Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018)
by BoorishBears on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:17AM
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I shouldn’t have to write this out but...
It’s a sliding scale. Not an on and off switch. “Why allow drinking at all?!” Society has deemed that people at 21 can handle it. The longer you wait the better so it’s not like there’s a detriment.
Do you remember the person you were at 21 vs 18?
But sure, if you think the drinking age should be 30 go ahead and call your congressperson.
They’re at a much higher risk for addiction, much higher risk for permanent brain impairment from alcohol, imagine if those risks and effects were instead just the baseline for everyone. For example, somehow even moderate drinking at 30 would permanently damage your brain as much as it can damage a growing brain (it can already be bad enough for the 30 year old brain but it’d be even worse) it’s hard to imagine drinking would be the viewed the same way