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People who are punished by the 21 drinking age:
=> Responsible people who don't want to break the law
=> Responsible people under 21 in general
=> People who don't have friends over 21 who can or will buy them alcohol or a fake ID
=> People who don't even want to drink alcohol but just want to go to clubs for the MUSIC (unheard of)
Everyone else under 21 just goes on drinking as if there were no law, either with alcohol supplied by someone else or a fake ID. Let me add that I also support harsher punishments for drunk driving. Generally I don't believe laws should be used to punish for behavior that COULD lead to harmful activity; they should punish for the harmful activity itself.
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"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln
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