https://www.reddit.com/r/YouthRights/comments/1ieq82y/society_shows_its_true_colours_when_age_is/
created by AssociationOpen7629 on 31/01/2025 at 21:44 UTC
41 upvotes, 5 top-level comments (showing 5)
Hey peeps. One thing I've notticed is all the types of people who babble about equality and us all deserving the same treatment change their tune when it's the 18 or 21 debate. Suddenly that measly three years is this huge gap and 18 to 20 year olds don't deserve the same rights as their three to one year older peers. I hate the 21 stuff with my entire soul and have since before I was 18. I'd wipe that sorry excuse of a milestone from peoples memories if I could. I'm 27 and still don't see the difference. I mean what is it currently? 2004 borns and 2007 borns. Oh yeah majorrr diff 🙄
Comment by 9river6 at 31/01/2025 at 22:17 UTC
18 upvotes, 2 direct replies
That's really just the US where 21 year olds have more rights than 18 year olds.
And even that's a relatively recent thing in the US, as in a post-Prohibition thing. The drinking age was 18 or sometimes even lower in the pre-Prohibition days. Then when Prohibition got repealed, some states set the drinking age at 21 basically as a compromise measure with people who still wanted the drinking age to be literally infinity. It wasn't until 1984 that 21 became the drinking age in all states.
Comment by Acrobatic_Art1240 at 01/02/2025 at 03:20 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
My mom said that my brain won't develop until I'm 27 🤣
Comment by OctopusIntellect at 01/02/2025 at 01:50 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
what about 16 year olds? and 14 year olds?
Comment by wolvesarewildthings at 02/02/2025 at 04:14 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
15 and 18 for that matter
Comment by FinancialSubstance16 at 01/02/2025 at 08:33 UTC
-1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I get that the drinking age was raised to 21 to deal with drunk driving but I think that a side effect of that is 18-20 becomes extended adolescence with 21 being the start of real adulthood.