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From: eric@whuxlb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 55mph aint the answer - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 22:49:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 22:49:30 1983
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whuxlb!eric    Jun 15 22:49:00 1983



	this is in reply to all you people who wish to
	crank that ole' driving age up to 21. I even saw
	26 mentioned.


<< LIGHT BURNERS >>
	Being 16 myself, and eligible for my license in a 
scant five weeks, I really don't care what NJ does now,
because i would keep my license (grandfather clause...).
However, I would like to comment on a more general trend
that seems to be occuring, and that is discrimination against
teenagers because of a bad few.

POINT ONE: Driving. I have had a permit for 6 months. I consider
myself a safe, if not exactly expert driver. Why should I wait
10 more years just because some other 16 year old jerk buys the
farm on Rt. 287??

POINT TWO: Teenagers are eternally victimized by bad press. If
you don't believe this, just think a moment. Every big holiday,
the newspapers print the death toll on the highway. The papers
make no huff over 200 or so people getting killed. HOWEVER, if
even 1 TEENAGER get it, he/she makes the front page. Papers 
label it a tragedy. I know, I know, teenagers DO have a dispro-
portional amount of accidents, but this imbalance is massively
blown up by the press.

POINT THREE: I am damned tired of society's double standards
of "adulthood." Suppose the ole' U.S. is being overrun by
Iranians. The government grabs the 18 year olds first. However,
when it comes to DRINKING, in New Jersey, I have to wait until
I'm 21. Why is that????

Next double standard, the old movie ratings bit. I wouldn't
mind not being able to see R rated films (legally) until I was an
adult except that I must pay adult prices when I
turn 13. That really hurts. I am old enough in the ticket line
to be considered an "adult", but when I hit the entrance,
I've got to be 17. That really sucks....

	I welcome replies to this little bit of
	flaming. But, first I demand that you
	do one thing... Remember, you were once
	my age too.....


				Eric Holtman
				harpo!whuxlb!eric