[Manfred]

So a liquor store should not be responsible for age restrictions and sell alcohol to minors? I think there is always a sliding point between where the government or companies police the rules. It's an interesting conversation where that point should be.

[dcow]

Abiding by laws is different from creating and/or enforcing them. You can bet a snowballs chance in hell liquor stores wouldn’t sell to 16+ year olds in the US if the law changed to allow it.

[lstodd]

Of course they absolutely should be. It's how I learned to build rectification columns from cookware after all. Education is a responsibility of the entire society after all.

It's just the stated goal - minimising alcohol consumption - is phony and misleading.