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0 pointskashif12y ago0 comments

This is an inappropriate analogy touted by many. Marriage and booze can't be equated. An over dose of booze might cause you to render harm to someone else, this cannot be said of marriage.

You may want to lower the drinking age but you need to come up with better reasons :) Also why shouldn't the drinking age be 15 or 13?

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sentenza12y ago

Marrying and having children before you are "ready" can adversely affect the children.

And, let's face it: Many young marriages are particularly bad matches due to the inexperience of the people involved.

In any case: I didn't know that there was a legal minimum age for marriage in India and I commend them for having it. Such a limit is an important progressive step for any country in which the parents are heavily involved in matchmaking.

pavanred12y ago

I used the analogy because both entail responsibility.

I am not favoring increase or decrease of either age mandates, I am just commenting on the disparity, if one cannot be trusted to consume alcohol responsibly then should the same person be trusted to be responsible for another human life (marriage and raising a child).

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