Genocide in the Old Testament

[John V]

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.

Correct - that's not a double standard because there are differences between the two categories.

Similarly, there are differences between god and man, so differing rules for the two are not a double standard.