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Originally Posted by Ashasx
I mean, the real issue here is punching a guy, but I don't really see drinking at age 18 as a big deal.
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It shouldn't be, but in the U.S. it is. The logic was impeccably stupid: to prevent 16-year-olds from drinking with a fake ID, you have to make it illegal for 20-year-olds to drink with a real ID. They could have enforced the law just the way it was, but that wouldn't let the politicians give themselves credit for doing something.
It was, of course, a federal idea. Congress withheld highway funding from any state that refused to raise the drinking age to 21, so in the end they all caved.