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When did being an adult stop meaning being an adult? If you're old enough to be in college, you're old enough to respect other people even if you disagree with them (and especially so if you disagree with them because you're wrong).

This has nothing to do with rape or feminism or any other of these issues: it has to do with respect and self-respect, neither of these the student body at that school seems to be rich in.

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If we feel righteous in empowering 18 year olds with the tools of war and dispatching them to rain down our wrath - and perhaps be killed in the act - then they should be treated with the same capacity for adult thought and reason as anyone else - and with it the same great responsibility that comes with adulthood.

To that point, I think they (18+ year olds) should be allowed to drink, too, but that's a topic for a different day.

If they can kill, they can drink.

Maybe the idea is that the first few years the youngsters spend in the killing trade, it should be without the influence of alcohol.

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