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This was the headline to an article I found on MSN today and people are sounding off on both sides. Personally I think I would, before everything else let's look at plain common sense. What happens when you tell a child not to do something? Odds are they'll do it. Forbidden fruit is a very big thing for young people learning to question authority. And what happens to all these things that everybody just points at with a 'bad! don't touch!' logic like sex or guns or whatever? Usually the kids will try it for themselves regardless of all the warnings, because it is forbidden so it's all the more appealing for them.
Now, moving onto another fact, some of these people say you should not give alcohol to your children because they are developing, their brains are still developing; well first of all if you can join the army and die at 18, you are developed enough to drink, also, the human brain does NOT fully develop and mature until around 26, so I suppose NOW we MUST raise the drinking age to 26, right? And if we do that we must also raise the military age to 26 as well, we don't want any young undeveloped boys in the army, do we?
And some of these people clearly think letting your kid have ANY alcohol is automatically going to make them drunk drivers and binge drinkers, etc., you can tell these people never touched a drop in their life for some reason...but at the same time nobody screams for the most logical solution to the problem, Prohibition, why should ANYBODY drink at all? Except we saw how well that worked, didn't we?
Now, moving onto another fact, some of these people say you should not give alcohol to your children because they are developing, their brains are still developing; well first of all if you can join the army and die at 18, you are developed enough to drink, also, the human brain does NOT fully develop and mature until around 26, so I suppose NOW we MUST raise the drinking age to 26, right? And if we do that we must also raise the military age to 26 as well, we don't want any young undeveloped boys in the army, do we?
And some of these people clearly think letting your kid have ANY alcohol is automatically going to make them drunk drivers and binge drinkers, etc., you can tell these people never touched a drop in their life for some reason...but at the same time nobody screams for the most logical solution to the problem, Prohibition, why should ANYBODY drink at all? Except we saw how well that worked, didn't we?
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