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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a huge contributing factor to these horrible binge drinking nightmares is our country's puritanical views on alcohol. We create a restrictive and punitive situation around drinking by having one of the most conservative set of alcohol laws in the world. It creates an environment where drinking is the forbidden fruit and it must be consumed as much as possible, as quickly as possible. If anything goes wrong, don't seek help because you will get in trouble. If the bystanders in this situation didn't have so much to lose, maybe this wouldn't have happened. Being drunk at 20 or being 21 and buying a keg for a party where freshman attend will get you expelled, cited, or even arrested does not create an environment where doing the right thing is encouraged. I'm not advocating serving your 5th grader merlot at dinner, but maybe we need to rethink the rigidity of our laws and rules around alcohol.

College students binge drink in dorms and frat houses before heading out for the night where they will be refused alcohol without an impeccable fake ID. Or they come home after a night of sober partying with a scarlett letter stamp of "under 21" and try and catch up with their peers at an after party.

For the same reason DCUM blasts sanctimommies for forbidding their snowflake cake at birthday parties, this shit is backfiring. We set college students up for 3+ years of covert instant gratification instead of transitioning them into the freedoms and responsibilities of adulthood. [/quote]

Yeah, no. Did you read the full account of what went on? No one was still out of it 15 hours later - they are just cold blooded psycho idiots.
[b]Plus this is Pennsylvania - there's  NO puritanical alcohol issue at all. High schoolers there drink typically like fish[/b].[/quote][/quote]

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