Debate on lower drinking age bubbling up

[Duke]

Except that drinking and voting/going to war are mutually exclusive in their purposes and of themselves. The age limit for voting and going to war should not dictate the drinking age, regardless of the perceived danger of any of them, because they are unrelated in their natures. Creating a uniform age for every privilege would accomplish nothing positive except to shut up the people who whine about it.

I would say the most appropriate age limit, were we to have one, would be 25, because that actually would protect people in at least one way: in their health.

Unrelated in nature, maybe, debateable. I don't think they are entirely unrelated, or "mutually exclusive" if you per se want to use that term. But obviously they are related in their restrictions. And on that basis I still raise my eyebrows.