DRINKING AGE AND FIGHTING AGE? (worth repeating) In war you follow orders, destr

DRINKING AGE AND FIGHTING AGE?

(worth repeating)

In war you follow orders, destroy and kill, and are in the constant presence of others who can violently constrain you – even kill you.

At home you have precisely the opposite conditions: you act on your own volition, are prohibited from almost every possible harm, you are in the presence of others who are by law limited in constraint of you.

Liberty requires cognizance and alcohol and testosterone erase it. So no. Drinking at home, and fighting in war are very different environments. The two have nothing to do with one another as long as young males under the influence of alcohol continue to cause a disproportionate amount of damage.

The question isn’t moral, and the environments are not commensurable. It’s empirical and the environments pose opposite conditions with opposite consequences.