Genocide in the Old Testament

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You're dodging because your claim of a double standard is shown to be faulty.

As opposed to dodging the bulk of my post by focusing in on the first line?

I just didn't want to repeat what Lemonvariable said; there's an actual good reason, in a demonstrable, scientific sense, why one wouldn't let a child drink alcohol. That's not a double standard, it's a reasonable employment of the facts at our disposal in order to safeguard the health of a set of people that aren't yet at a mental level to make those decisions themselves.

It'd be a double standard if there were no objectively harmful consequences to the act, but since there are, it's just rational. It's the same reason it isn't a double standard to prefer to crash your car into a fence post rather than a steel wall filled with spikes.