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I misunderstood. I thought you were for abolishing the legal drinking age as opposed to just lowering it. Heck, the legal drinking age here is 18, so if you're only gripe is that 21 is too high, well then fine. Just be aware that 18 is just as arbitrary as 21 in the end, and probably won't make...

Dude, OF COURSE it would be better for everyone if we could just "educate" people on the dangers of drinking, just like it would be awesome if we could "educate" people out of being racist, sexist, homophobic, religious, greedy, etc. How can we do that? PSAs? Fun cartoon music videos? Facebook...

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Well, that would be stupid thing for 18 year olds to do. Why shouldn't they be responsible for the consequences of their stupid decisions? Sounds like you're saying "teens will be teens" and need us to protect them from their stupidity. I'd prefer they learn to start acting responsibly as soon...

What makes you so sure that there has been an increase in overindulgence? Why are you convinced this is due to underage drinking laws? I don't necessarily disagree, but I'm curious where you're getting this info from.

As a blanket policy to be applied to all colleges? No. But there is no denying that underage drinking is a big problem in some colleges, such as the one Mist described. One response would be to say "So what? Let these kids fuck up their lives on their own terms." Another would be to attempt to...

The way I understood it, Mist was basically saying that by reducing underage drinking, you reduce both rapes and rape accusations. Make underage drinking an expellable offense, and it's one less harmful distraction that undermines students' educational pursuits. I don't consider this a violation...

Case in point.

When I'm on the minority side of an argument, I have no choice but to admit it when I am wrong about something. I can't pretend otherwise, or the fury of a thousand alphas will rain down upon me ceaselessly, forcing that point home. So yeah,I was wrong.I was forced to rethink not just my...

"Smegma", "bottles the mind", "Fox News", "sassafrass", and the smell of B- blood. You?

From what I understand, the jury decided she had no intention of killing or seriously injuring him. That intent is required for either an attempted murder or anaggravatedassault charge. While what she did definitely counts as assault, that wasn't what she was being charged with so they couldn't...

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Pure gold. It's all pure gold.

And the accused was also a minor. The law still applies to minors, dude. They aren't punished the same way, but they still have to obey laws. I'm surprised this is news for you.

What part of that contradicts anything I said?

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Yeah, that's her side of the story. The other side of the story is that she was eager to sleep with the guy and was seen both on top of him and hugging him in bed (not signs of resistance). When it's words against words, we go by what can reasonably be proven, and EVERYONE'S words indicated she...

Yeah, I did shift my opinion over a month ago. Clarification here. My apologies for the confusion.

OK,here's another one. Girl gets wasted, sleeps with guy. Defense says that the girl was in love with the guy and wanted to sleep with him all along. Girl's friend posts on MySpace: "(victim) got fucked and dumped by (accused)". Circumstantial evidence shows that girl was too far drunk to...

Agree 100%. And yet the argument just keeps going...

Well, we don't know she was unconscious. We absolutely do know she was incapable of giving legal consent.

Not how I interpreted that at all. JUST being intoxicated means "just being drunk". If you get drunk, even if you're less inhibited and would do stuff you normally wouldn't do, you can still give legal consent. In that case you may have bad judgment, but you're still capable of sound judgment...

Well, it does also say "the evidence suggested that the victim actually consented to intercourse". I would also like to see more details on this case, but I'm just working with what I've got here, which does support my point. Here'sanother casewhere a woman (who was on medication) had a few...

No, I don't have the original case. This is my first foray into searching case law and it is a long and tedious process. Sorry!

WOW! Incredible. You actually still don't get it. The patient in that case was not unconscious when the doctor fucked her. Evidence shows that she gave actual consent. She said "yes". So why was it illegal? Because her mental capabilities were severely hampered by the drugs administered to her...

Now that's awkward.

Oh God, what a fantastic scenario... Araysar would end up behind bars for life (even if the charge was jaywalking) and Cad would be arrested for making a mockery of the law while being an insurance salesman. Thanks, Araybro, that brought a smile to my face.

From People v. Giardino, where this reference to People v. Ing is made: Again, take a look at the law before talking out of your ass: Show me where it says anything about the reasonwhysaid "intoxicated or anesthetic substance" was consumed, or whether it was consumed by one's own volition. The...

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