Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Double Standards in American society Message-ID: <752@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 17:35:48 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.752 Posted: Fri Jul 5 17:35:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jul-85 05:53:40 EDT References: <300@tektools.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 21 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? Well, you've said it yourself: the evidence indicates that on the average, an 18 year old isn't old enough to drink. There's no innate reason why you should receive all your rights at the same age (after all, driving normally comes at 15 or 16). Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe