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Originally Posted by Golden Teapot
Or you're being stupidly naive. A 13 year old is ENTIRELY capable of understanding that if they are drugged up and out of their mind in a place with potentially dangerous people then something bad might happen to them. These teenagers are taught this in school (where attendance is compulsory).
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It's not as black and white as you are making it out to be, GT. While they could "choose" to go down the route of drugs and alcohol, the predisposition to that route can be heavily influenced by external sources because they quite simply haven't developed enough to form complete, logical and rational independent thoughts. The key word there is, "complete." You're mentioning teenagers, but we're talking 13 year olds here. There is a colossal difference between 13 and 17 even if they're both teenagers.
The developmental stages a 10 - 13 or even 13 - 15/16 year old is going through is crucial and they are absolutely still easily swayed by adult/senior issues if they're exposed to them. They've got a whole heap of biological nonsense going on with hormones and new thought patterns which COULD display independence to a lay person, but the reality is that they're still extremely easily molded and/or groomed and adding alcohol to the mix would confuse a huge majority of children in that age bracket.
Note; I say most, not all. There are always exceptions, however your opinions and suggestions are literally going against thousands of peer reviewed, evidence based literature.
Just because you or I, or even your children had proper adult influences in place to guide our developmental progress towards a pattern of what is known to be rational and logic and dismiss any drug and alcohol until age-appropriate or even until we're slightly older, does not mean that everyone has had that luxury and that is most likely the type of children these guys are going for. And they probably were easily swayed into drinking, copious amounts even, but that does not at all mean they've consented in any way and should absolutely not minimise the atrocity of guys preying on younger women and boasting about it online.