petro
Diamond Member
I disagree.The youth of 50 years ago was much more mature.You can drink in Canada at 19, drive a car at 16. That's bloody insane. Driving a car on the highway, in traffic at age 16?! Many fully developed adults can't handle that.
Now I know some will say "I was driving my dads tractor at age 9!" When you are talking about life or death, a 16 year old is way too bloody young to be driving and anomalies don't count.
So, I believe 21 should be the age of everything: voting, buying a gun, driving, buying alcohol on and on.
One can even argue that a person brain still isn't fully developed at 21, but it's certainly an improvement from the current younger age of everything on both sides of the border.
Thoughts?
Now we have a generation that stays with parents well into their 20's.
The raising of age limits has reflected that immaturity.
This has coincided with the creation of the Dept. of Education in America during the 70's.
Add that social media which the creators openly admit is addictive and destructive, and you end up with a generation ill prepared mentally and lacking skill sets for the real world.
No we weren't
I was allowed to drink at 18. We were far from mature. I would see at least one kid killed a year from drunk or excessively reckless driving.....hardly see that anymore
Kids are still driving drunk and deaths from DUI is still way too high. Far more than gun deaths.
There is a lot of kids getting alcohol poisoning since now there is candy flavored booze. Just like Kool-aid. Hell, even Mpls. just banned flavored cigarettes and cigars because they claim the kids can't resist the sweet taste, and now the study that teen smoking has gone up due to flavoring and vaping.
There was not this pattern of living with parents far into their 20's either. Many simply can't deal with reaponsibilty or real life. They are far more self centered than in the past.