@Zineeditor
As you bring up a good point, one cannot simply take all these proposed changes to be equal. For instance, lowering or raising the drinking age would not have such a profound impact on our economy as say, outlawing the use of tobacco based products (drop in industry, unemployment, protests, raise in percentage of people in our correctional facilities etc.) Although many of these proposed changes are, like you said, ridiculous and are (if enacted) subtly moving our country towards totalitarian control, you can't just automatically assume that all change is bad. You must use sense and reason to implement changes that are necessary and equal sense and reason to halt those that are not. If we were to constantly keep our nation, operating the same for years and years without amendments, we would eventually become behind the times socially economically and militarily. We must change, if we don't, than what is the point of a democracy. However, as I previously stated, the change must be carefully monitored and contemplated before enacted (thus the point of majority rule [democracy]).
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Also just another thought, in many states minors can legally consume alcoholic beverages as long as they are served to them by their legal guardians. With that in mind, what happens to kids who reach the age of 18, who are already alcoholics, that puts them with three years before they can drink again. Hmmm, just a thought.
