chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (10/07/86)
In article <119@aloha1.UUCP> white@aloha1.UUCP (Ray White) writes: >Can't buy beer?....none of my high-school buddies ever had trouble >getting beer....one of them always had a "big brother" to help them >get it. By your reasoning removing the drinking age laws will reduce >the use of other (illegal) drugs. That maybe so, but only to a very >small extent, and the cost incurred (alcohalizm, increased automobile >fatalities, etc.) is certainly not worth it. I cannot comment on much of this, for human actions have long puzzled me. I have, however, wondered rather often whether *lowering* the legal drinking age might have the same effect on accident statistics as *raising* it. (Raising the drinking age has been fairly well demonstrated to reduce alcohol-related automobile accidents.) It may be that many teenagers are experimenting with both as soon as convenient, and that they do not realise what a terrible combination that makes. [.signature territory, and an unrelated topic:] >"No pain....No gain" - Arnold A popular misconception, this should rather be rendered `no effort, no gain'---or in its better-known form, `nothing ventured, nothing gained'. (On the other hand, you may have a different definition of `pain'.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 1516) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu