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What stops an adult from buying alcohol and letting an under-18 drink it?

Nothing, which is why these laws are useless (to protect children), but very useful to monitor everyone.

What answer are you even looking for? There’s no proactive law enforcement waiting to bust down your door if you give underage kids alcohol. (Note this is true of nearly all crimes.)

But if a kid dies of alcohol poisoning or drunk driving, you can certainly get in serious legal trouble. Those two things (not wanting kids to be harmed by alcohol, and not wanting legal trouble) stop a very large number of adults from giving minors alcohol.

I am simply making the point that no verification system is going to be perfect, it's an impossible goal.

I also would personally prefer we not destroy the internet in pursuit of that goal.

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