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guttentag writes: "Christian Science Monitor Reporter Warren Richey suspects he may have stumbled onto a credit card fraud ring that uses Internet merchants to quietly funnel night-vision rifle scopes to Middle Eastern terrorists and privacy policies to cover their tracks. Even if these are isolated incidents, it's worth noting that the privacy rules intended to protect us can also work against us."
What exactly is wrong with minors drinking?
Here in Italy there is NO drinking age, but I don't see 8 year olds boozing it up... in general people tend to drink a little more responsibly (there are still problems). I've never seen parties with kids getting torn up like they do in the states, illegality makes it much more "cool" than any advertising ever will.
It would probably be better to have a responsible adult give some kids a couple of beers, than letting them go out and share a bottle of liquor they stole.
Of course, that's just my take on it.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
Well, now that we're varying heavily off topic...
It's been clinically proven that drinking before a certain level of body development can cause developmental disorders, and that stage usually occurs around age 19... the decision of the age of majority is pretty arbitrary but rarely goes below that level for those reasons... same reason cigarettes are bad to give to kids.
But based on those reasons, I'd sooner make it illegal for a pregnant woman to drink than a kid.
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