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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Statistics are irrelevant
Should Abraham Lincoln consider whether crime statistics might rise if the slaves are freed? No amount of statistical analysis of historical crash data can establish that the government has a right to impose alcohol prohibition on an innocent person who never consented to it. In a free country, the citizen would decide what to eat and drink.
- TomAlciere
February 16, 2009 5:56PM
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