Blogs of War reader Jason Mah writes:
Hi I was wondering what you think of raising the legal age of consent to join the military. In the united states the legal age to drink alchohol is 21. And the reason stated is that young people at that age is too young to make an adult choice to drink or not. So with that in mind, shouldnt the age of consent to join the military be raised?
Contrasting military enlistment standards with other, completely irrelevant, age restricted activities is a tactic commonly employed by the ineffective Left in an attempt to hamper military recruiting efforts. With that in mind I’d lower the drinking age to 18. That would frustrate the Left as well as strike a blow against the current move by Western society to extend adolescence into the mid-twenties.
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Completely agreed. I support a lower drinking age and the current enlistment age. It’s a matter of personal responsibility, personal liberty, and a strong national military in defense of both. The creeping infantilization pushed by the left must be stopped.