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Originally Posted by MRiGnS  well, here you are allowed to drink beer and wine with the age of 16 (same goes for smoking). To drink hard stuff you need to be 18 (same goes for a driver's license).
I'm fine with that. |
That makes sense to me, too. The only problem with drinking at 16 is if they're allowed in bars - that's just begging for all kinds of statutory rape. However, it'd be nice if kids were allowed to drink and learn how to do it responsibly before they graduated high school. I couldn't believe some of the kids in residence in first year who had never been away from home and their parents were so strict with them they had never learned what alcohol was all about.