Telluride

I mostly agree with dfings.

I don't necessarily think that 21 is too high for the drinking age. It's just that you get all these rights and responsibilities piled on you at 18, yet there are a few things that you still can't do and there doesn't seem to be any real reason why. As dfings pointed out, an 18 year old can go to war and vote. They can also buy cigarettes, get married and be executed if they commit a serious crime. Yet for some reason they can't legally buy or drink beer (or buy/own a pistol, but I'll save that for another discussion), and that makes no sense to me.

What I'm getting at is that I think there needs to be one age at which people are considered to be full-fledged adults, rather than splitting things up the way we do now.

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