Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site persci.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!petsd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!cholula!persci!bill From: bill@persci.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Double Standards in American society (drinking < 21) Message-ID: <220@persci.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 12:00:31 EDT Article-I.D.: persci.220 Posted: Fri Jul 5 12:00:31 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jul-85 16:39:46 EDT References: <300@tektools.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (Bill Swan) Distribution: na Organization: Personal Scientific, Woodinville WA Lines: 30 Summary: In article <300@tektools.UUCP> bobc@tektools.UUCP (Bob Crane) writes: >I can't take it any more! I'm old enough to go fight a war, pay >200 dollars in taxes on my last pay check, and get the death >sentence, but because I'm under 21, I'm not old enough to >buy a glass of beer. > >Now (or this year) Reagan is trying to force ALL states to raise >the minimum drinking age to 21 do to pressure from special interest >groups like MADD. > >Its true that a major portion of drunk driving accidents come for >23 year and younger folk but how can we put up with these types >of double standards? > >Bob Crane >tektronix!tektools!bobc Bob, re-read your last sentence. Your statement clearly makes it not a double-standard (pardon the grammar). I was a victim several years ago of a 'kid' (from a state where he could legally drink at 18) who celebrated his 19th by going out drinking. The result? A padded neck-brace for two months (during a heat-wave, too!) and a full year of constant headache, ranging from mild to near-migraine intensity. I was lucky! If I'd not installed seatbelts the week before, and been wearing them, I'd have given a special boost to a certain plot of daisies. He, of course, didn't get a scratch.. -- Bill Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill