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Re:Should the US drinking age be lowered to 18? by timr on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @05:01AM (#281322)
"The problem with your comment is that you don't really grow up until around 35 or so."

Har. Lemme guess...you're 36?

The problem with age as a metric of "growing up", is that the cutoff is always older than you are, but younger than the guy who makes the rules.

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Re:Should the US drinking age be lowered to 18? by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @06:01AM (#281345)
Kind of a tough pill to swallow, eh?

In any case, my point isn't that people should receive some benefit based on maturity. It's just the opposite. We live in a society where kids at 12 can have credit cards, at 16 can drive, etc. It's perfectly fine, imo, to allow people to do things while they are still immature to some degree.

The "guy who makes the rules" is the guy who votes. That's people 18 years and older.

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