<OT> One more reason I am glad I don't live in CA

[Jack Berger]

Well, there was a time when involuntary conscription (the draft) was in force that most of the country lowered the drinking age to 18 as well. When the draft ended, so did most of the 18 yr old (legal) drinking. Maybe someone will see the logic in that and carry through on this.

But then as noted, we don't do all that well with adults (by whatever defn) voting either.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alma J Wetzker [mailto:almaw at ieee.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 11:02 AM
To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
Subject: Re: <OT> One more reason I am glad I don't live in CA


Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, dep wrote:
> 
>>quoth Net Llama!:
>>
>>| Not that i nececsarily agree with this (and I do live in california),
>>| but I hear folks made the same argument against giving voting rights
>>| to 18 year olds a while back.
>>
>>yup. they were right, too.
> 
> 
> And the argument against was that they were old enough to get sent off to
> war, but not to vote for the people sending them off to war.

An argument that I wholeheartedly endorse.  I do have to agree with Dennis, 
however.  Solution:  We should stop sending them off to war that young.

     -- Alma