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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat
hmmm
actually when I was like 16 or 17 and we were going out with friends and we wanted to buy a beer but in that particular shop they wanted to see our ID's, then it happened that someone older helped us.
And once or twice I helped someone else in a similar way after I was 18 probably.
the "no alcohol for kids" rule is stupid, especially if you consider a kid someone who is 20 years old, like in most places in America
you can dirve a car, you can have sex, many people here are 20 and make very good money and start investing into real estate but yet they can't buy a beer   |
Well there are parts of your frontal lobe that don't fully develop until your early 20's. This include reasoning and good decision making skills. That's why the law is the way it is. It's not a magic a number, lol. It's a scientifically proven number.