Any chance the drinking age will get lowered to 18 any time soon?

[Sekhmets Daughter]

56. Yes, fake IDs have existed since the first ID ever required....

However, it is much more difficult for a 16-year-old to pass for 21 than 18.

As to comparisons to the rest of the world....there is no other country on the planet in which so many 16 to 18 year old children drive and frequently have their own cars. And yes, I said children with no disrespect intended.

They should not have lowered the voting age, they should have raised the age for military service. Know why they didn't do that? Because by 21 most people have realized their own mortality.... They were drafting 18-year-old boys to risk life and limb in Vietnam...so they gave them the right to vote. A rather cynical sop as until recently 18-year-olds rarely bothered to vote. Now, an all volunteer military would be hard pressed to recruit if the age for service was 21.

I don't like the idea of 18-year-olds as canon fodder and I certainly don't want to give them another means with which to kill or cripple themselves.