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Oh I totally agree. The system is fucked. I was just saying that me personally, as an 18 year old kid, had worse impulse control than me personally at 21. I'm not saying this is the case for everyone, im a dopamine chaser that doesn't get it elsewhere. I get that. I was just stating that I had alcohol problems at 21-22. If I had easier access at an earlier age without having to deal witha shady person? I'm just saying 19 year old me with too much money couldn't handle that. That's it, I'm not saying 21 is justified when you can go to war 3 years earlier. All I'm saying is that my old alcohol problem would have been way more problematic had it been easier to access at a younger age.
I don't understand the down votes for telling my experience and how it would be different in an alternate world.
I dunno, I'm neurodivergent and was awkward in my youth. Didn't know how to cope, so I found others that didn't know how to connect with society. Even in the late 90s/early 00s, you just didn't check for that sort of thing unless it was really apparent at the time. So a lot of us went undiagnosed, unhelped, and just kind of on our own to figure out life because our parents didn't raise us. Nobody did. But there was drugs and alcohol
I'm just saying putting something off that can be addicting is a good thing. Be it high fructose corn syrup, nicotine, alcohol, there's even new studies saying teens should stave off weed a bit longer.
Impulse control or not, you are an adult that can make adult decisions. Pushing this back and pushing this back does not help anyone, it just creates this forever-child syndrome. Managers wonder why people are showing up to job interviews with their parents, and it's because we keep pushing back the decision making and independence. Right now being 18-21 is treated like you're not an adult, so people just act stupid because that's what's expected of them.