The Red and Black

Originally posted by

Sonia Kermaz

Binge drinking has very little to do with age limits and everything to do with the middle class culture of over-consumption. American parents start with all-you-can-eat pizza parties for toddlers and eventually over-indulge them with cars, credit cards and a campus condo. Binge drinking is nothing more than the adolescent version of adult binging. The best way to solve the problem is to lower the drinking age and take away their cars, credit cards and college vacations.

Wow, what do the middle class, credit cards, and college vacations have to do with binge drinking? Your issues are obviously against more privileged individuals (WHICH IS COMPLETELY FINE) and you are just looking for any outlet to justify your jealousy.

Originally posted by

Anoymous

Hey 21+, get yourself to the police station and turn yourself in for underage drinking so you can be jailed, fined, and made to do community service then. You know, since you're implying that you want that for others under 21 who drink alcohol and all.

You must be drinking if you think that's what I implied. I didn't imply anything... I said what I said.

21+ had this to say about my response to him/her since apparently this board doesn't allow me to quote others' quotes:

[QUOTE]You must be drinking if you think that's what I implied. I didn't imply anything... I said what I said. [/QUOTE]

If I were drinking heavily, I probably would have made spiteful comments about your ancestry in a post with lots of misspellings and random symbols. But since I was sober, I formulated the meaning your post as:

You drank underage + You said alcohol never leads to anything good + You made the post in a story about lowering the drinking age to 18

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You support the 21 drinking age - a law that mandates arrest, jail, and community service/fines for a 20-year-old sipping a lite beer - even though you yourself broke the law.

I wasn't supposed to conclude that? Why, given the context of the post?

Originally posted by

Anoymous

Hey 21+, get yourself to the police station and turn yourself in for underage drinking so you can be jailed, fined, and made to do community service then. You know, since you're implying that you want that for others under 21 who drink alcohol and all.

"Anonymous", you could conclude (if your ancestrial tree actually forked) that I admit that I drank while under the age of 21 but that regardless of what age I am or anyone else is, that nothing good ever came from alcohol. Nowhere did I say or imply underage drinkers need to go to jail, do community service, etc. No did I say or imply that the drinking age should be lowered, or remain 21. Sometimes, when someone says that nothing good ever comes from alcohol, maybe they simply mean "nothing good ever comes from alcohol."