Personally I think we should just set everything to 19. It means raising the age of consent, the voting age, loans, legal contracts, and the age you can join the military. You'd get a lower drinking age, smoking age, some protections/rights only available to people who are 21, etc.
The reason is because by 19, you've graduated high school. Then we assume you're now an adult old enough to do adult stuff. If you're old enough to get married you should be able to drink at your wedding. If you're old enough to fight in a war you should be old enough to rent a car.
The US has a Madonna-whore complex that's all kinds of ass backwards.
Personally I think we should just set everything to 19. It means raising the age of consent, the voting age, loans, legal contracts, and the age you can join the military. You'd get a lower drinking age, smoking age, some protections/rights only available to people who are 21, etc.
The reason is because by 19, you've graduated high school. Then we assume you're now an adult old enough to do adult stuff. If you're old enough to get married you should be able to drink at your wedding. If you're old enough to fight in a war you should be old enough to rent a car.
The US has a Madonna-whore complex that's all kinds of ass backwards.