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Do you remember your first taste of alcohol? How old were you? Twenty-one? All 50 states currently demand that their citizens reach age 21 before they can legally drink. But there's a growing movement that says mandatory minimum laws may do more harm than good. When determining the right date when a young person can take one of their final steps towards personal responsibility and freedom, what's the right answer?
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A bad law implemented for good reasons is still a bad law. If even a single person's liberties are trampled upon in the name of prevention can we still claim to respect individual liberties?
The focus of your numbers are purely from a drinking and driving standpoint though other crimes can be linked to drinking. The reason the law "works" is that it tramples upon enough people to be measurable but not enough to cause actionable outrage. The damage causing actions are already illegal and tying them to intoxication by invoking harsher punishments to impaired individuals we be the best public action. Otherwise, I feel there is some root cause (parenting, education, enforcement) that needs to be looked at.
Some other numbers (part = percentage + absolute ratio)
What part of the population have children?
What part of the adult/child populations commit crimes while intoxicated (actual and estimated)?
What part of the adult/child populations drink?
- polobo
August 27, 2008 9:19AM
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