• @totallynotarobot
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    2310 months ago

    Most places in the world allow people to drink before age 21.

    • Chozo
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      010 months ago

      Oh yeah that’s right. I always forget that’s a thing. That still seems so bizarre to me.

      • @Nudding
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        810 months ago

        In the states, you can fight and die for your country, or shoot a porno flick, 3 years before your allowed to drink a beer lol.

        That doesn’t seem bizarre to you?

        • Chozo
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          -510 months ago

          They’re not mutually exclusive. All of those are bizarre.

          • @Nudding
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            510 months ago

            Do you know what bizarre means?

      • @[email protected]
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        710 months ago

        That people can drink when they’re considered adults? Or that america sends them to war or to take on a mortgage before they may have a beer out of some puritanical prudishness?

        • Chozo
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          010 months ago

          Not a puritan prude, but children shouldn’t drink alcohol. I don’t think that’s really that hot of a take. There’s a lot of science behind the damage alcohol causes to developing bodies, but hang onto them pearls, I guess.

          • @[email protected]
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            510 months ago

            Im not in disagreement, just saying if someone is considered old and implicitly wise enough to grasp what joining the military or taking on decades of debt really means, they most certainly are old enough to drink alcohol as they see fit.

          • @Nudding
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            010 months ago

            Do you know what hang onto them pearls means?

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          -510 months ago

          Meh if you can’t find ways to get booze under 21 you don’t deserve it. Prison style wine is trivial to make or just pay a vagrant.