I am totally on board with this. It makes a lot of sense. You’re in the salad bar and your favorite salad is not really ‘tossed enough’ for you to want to grab it and make a meal from it.
One of the things that makes this age limit so easy to understand is that it doesn’t really make sense to a lot of people. Sure, kids aren’t eating what they want, but the idea of a “no-exception” rule is that it would be pointless to serve more than one person at a time. The rule also makes sense because, if it was applied to adults, it would just mean youre always serving the same thing (or something that only has one flavor).
It’s not that kids and adults are the same. The whole idea that one age is the same as another is a myth. The age of majority is different for different age groups (for example, being 12 means youre allowed to drink alcohol and drive, but you have to be at least 19 to be old enough to vote). The age of majority is set at 18 by the government, but it can be changed at any time by the legislature.
The U.S. is actually one of the only countries that has an age of majority for alcohol. But even this is a myth because even with an age of majority, you can still legally be arrested for having a glass of wine.
As for the age of majority, some states have strict age restrictions for certain activities. For example, in New York, a person must be at least 18 to be a city employee, and a person must be at least 21 to be a school teacher.
But it’s kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because of the age of majority, these restrictions will be applied to you as well. Once you’re 21, you can go out into public and get drunk as often as you want, but you can’t get arrested for having a glass of wine.
This is somewhat true, but I want to point out that it applies to us also. We are all grown up and we all know what the age of majority is. That said, it would be nice if there were a limit on how much alcohol a person could get in one night in New York. Perhaps even a limit on how much it could affect someone’s cognitive function, if that matters to you.
The reason I was referring to this rule might be because at the time of this writing, 21 year olds can legally get drunk as much as they want, and that’s without ever putting anyone in danger of getting hurt. They can also get arrested for it.
I see tons of tonsil removal articles like this. The main reason I think it’s so bad is that tonsil removal is usually done by people who don’t want to get caught, a fact that I can’t disagree with. In fact, I would like to see the age of consent lowered to the point that people don’t have to get caught at all.
The same could be true of other things we do. The difference is that the stuff we do has consequences, usually, but a lot of the time it doesn’t. If you do tonsil removal, you are the reason someone gets arrested for it. If you commit adultery, you will be accused of it by your spouse’s family, and if you’re an alcoholic, you will be shunned by your peers.