Unjust laws: drinking and smoking age. Let's have an honest discussion.

(OT has better shot at this than Poli-circle jerk board does. Some of us are rational here.)


I'm not going to lay out the argument of "you can fight and die in a war for your country", or the responsibility to vote, or support yourself/get married.

Others will do that. And those are valid arguments.

Mine is the death penalty/ life without parole angle.

If we can say, with a straight face, that someone is responsible enough for their actions to be sentenced to death or life imprisonment, how can we then say they are not responsible enough to consume alcohol and tobacco?

How can we say a 15 or 16 year old is enough of an adult to be charged as one, but then say they cannot be responsible enough to decide what to do with their bodies?


We cant have it both ways and consider ourselves a fair society.

These two age limits are unjust. And we should not support this type of oppression on our society.





Now...I am willing to compromise: we can keep these safe limits, but raise the legal age to qualify for the death penalty and life without parole to 21.


Fair enough?

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"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."
Thomas Jefferson

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