So, you think when bad laws go away, the attitudes behind them disappear as if by magic?
The article gives up-to-date statistics as well as the dates of various laws. If you think those statistics are wrong, or don’t demonstrate what the authors say they do, you can explain. Or admit that your opinion is rooted in abject ignorance of the world you live in. Either will do.
You probably missed my edit. You didn’t give evidence for your position so I’ve asked you to refute evidence for mine, just to make it nice and simple for you.
Yeah. In working for the public sector, I accepted lower pay in return for a good pension and a sense of doing something worthwhile. Now they’ve made the pension scheme way worse, my pay is 25% lower in real terms than it was 15 years ago, and everything we do is badly underfunded because they’re sending all the money to outsourcers who do not give a shit about anything but their executive pay packets.
And muggins is still here because even though the bastards will (almost) inevitably win, I want to fight the fuckers anyway.
It’s not a paywall on information. What you’re paying for is a better search engine and better privacy. People have to be paid to provide you with that and, if you don’t want to pay them with cash, you can go and pay another search engine with your time and data.
The foreigner in question almost certainly did not know the age was 21. This happened to me in the US. Sitting with my mum and sister in the hotel bar, having a quiet beer. Then I get asked for my ID and it all gets very confusing. “But I’m 18, what’s the problem?”