Bfgrn
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I'm not getting what this has to do about a sense of entitlement. Under-age kids from ALL backgrounds a) want to obtain alcohol b) want to get drunk on it and c) can't handle their liquor.
PErsonally I think the drinking age in this country is way to high and the driving age too low. THey ought to switch them. 16 to drink 21 to drive!
You are totally missing my point. First of all, it is an opinion. But it is ironic that it's perfectly OK for conservatives and Republican pols like this kid's dad and grandfather to deride people receiving unemployment insurance or food stamps as having a 'entitlement mentality' with no evidence other than dogma and personal bias. Second, how a person treats others who are in a position of providing service to you can tell a lot about how they view that person and themselves. Was William Paul taught through word and deed that employees are property who can be abused? Young master Paul failed this test miserably on the flight. This kid didn't just get drunk on an airplane. He physically assaulted a female flight attendant. That raises a whole new set of questions about his character and upbringing.
He allegedly assaulted a flight attendant, and he was also drunk. Kids with great characters and upbringings get drunk and then do stupid things. You're trying to turn this into something much more than it is.
No male with great character and upbringing assaults a female by aggressive physical force.
You 'individual responsibility' folks would usually call this kid a punk, a scumbag, or a piece of shit.
New details have emerged about William Hilton Paul's very fun flight to Charlotte last week, a voyage that ended with the 19-year-old in the slammer and his senator father in a very embarrassing position. Well, things just got worse for both Kentucky gentlemen. In addition to underage drinking, disorderly conduct and being intoxicated and disruptive, it's now been disclosed that Paul the younger faces "a misdemeanor assault on a female by aggressive physical force," The Charlotte Observer reports.
Evidently, Rand Paul's Son Assaulted a Flight Attendant While Drunk - National - The Atlantic Wire