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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
I missed the 16 w/guardian comment regarding drinking age. I'm tempted to agree with that, but then I also think of the irresponsible parents who just want to be their kid's friend and so they throw parties and provide alcohol. I don't want to legalize that shit. I think I'd rather just make the drinking age 16 than give such parents further incentive to be "friends" with their child.
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I think we need to be a little more complex than that with regards to felons voting, but I generally agree. Regardless of voting rights while in jail, I think it should be a federal crime to deny a citizen the right to vote once they have finished serving their time.
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I gave my daughter (age 9) a glass of wine with our Sunday lunch. It was a thimble full of sparkling rose with a top up of soda water (basically just enough wine to give colour to the water), but I see nothing odd about that - it's how I was brought up, and I hope that by the time she's looking out for herself in social situations, she has enough experience of what alcohol is for and how it works to not end up as a drunken slut puking in the street.