I don't get it.

[xp_wallflower]

*ponders* Anyone want to explain the facination with drinking to me? Especially illegal drinking?

Comments

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

"Because it's the law." is not sufficient enough reason for me to follow it. Many laws are stupid, badly written - and in some places, what you propose here would keep people from living their lives as normal.

Did you know that in some places, an ummarried couple living together is breaking the law? That sexual relations when unmarried is against the law in some places? That many places in the world consider homosexual activity to be illegal?

Would you tell people not to love?

In some countries, being Catholic was illegal. In some, Muslim or athiest or any religion not that of the approved government.

Would you tell people how to worship, solely because it is the law?

In some places, a woman cannot walk outside without a male companion. Cannot hold a job, vote, drive a car, do anything except mother and raise children, and not even that fully.

Would you not work, go to school, walk freely because it is the LAW?

It is not as black and white as you like to think, and you are too young to be lecturing others - adults, in many cases, on how to properly live their lives.

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

And it's not even such big important things like that. The point of law is to protect people's freedom to live as they please, so long as that freedom doesn't infringe on other people's. That's why you get punished for stealing or physically hurting people or dumping nuclear waste into a lake or firing someone from their job just because they don't look like you.

Drinking laws may be relatively benign compared to other things, but that doesn't make them any less repressive. Why do they exist? Because governments have hard-ons for regulating every last thing people do just so they look like they're doing something. They spread fear to make people fall in line with every last dumb decree. Hell, if I'm considered mature enough to have a say in the government if I were so inclined, then I can't I get a beer, too?

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

Way I see it - you ain't got any rights except the ones you've proven yourself responsible enough to have. If you think you're old enough to drink, then you take the consequences of doing so. If the law says you're too young, then you're responsible for whateveer comes out of it, regardless of whether you think it's a bad law or not.

But if you do something stupid, you've only got yourself to blame. Frankly, when it comes to this house, the law's going to be obeyed under this roof when it comes to that particular issue. But if people want to be damn fools out in the world, then you get to deal with whatever comes of it.

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

If you're stupid enough to get caught, then maybe you should be punished.