Hmm? Do you mean the first generation not called up for the draft? You still have to register (if, that is, the “you” is male, which ought to be changed) and I thought that had always been the case.
I don’t think the drinking age will be lowered in the United States until we have a massive improvement in public transportation. In much of Europe if you’re a stupid buzzed 18-year old who’s been out partying you can hop on a bus or a train to go home; worst case scenario is that you’ll fall asleep and miss your stop. In the US if you’re 18, have been drinking, and want to go somewhere, someone in the party is likely to get behind the wheel of a car.
Most? And I was explicitly excluding heterogeneous countries that may have a Christian majority* but allow it, like Nigeria.
*Polls differ. Pew gives 0.5% more Christians but basically even.
Apologies if this is becoming a slight hijack, another thread maybe.
a great place to be a guy if you survive it! 
Still, you can’t expect to go against three of the most powerful South American countries alone. The number of deaths (military and civilian) were double the troops committed.
Wiki says 4:1 F:M on average, but as high as 20:1 in some places. “Unfortunately,” a country that is (now) 89.9% Catholic is unlikely to let you get your war widow marryin’ on.
I bust my ass keeping one woman happy. Polygamy? Right.
Said an Argentine gaucho named Bruno,
"Fucking is one thing I do know!
"Camels are fine
"And sheep are divine
“But llamas are numero uno!”
– Isaac Asimov
– no, really
IIRC, there was a 3 or 4 year period after the draft ended before mandatory registration resumed. There are a few men in the United States who never had to register for the draft.
thelurkinghorror Well, when I say ‘legally allow polygamy’ I’m including those African countries, which don’t explicitly sanction polygamy in their civil law, but do allow for polygamous marriages under ‘customary’ law. So I may be using a more expansive definition of legality than you are.
The map below indicates that Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Zambia and Myanmar are all countries which explicitly allow polygamy in their legal codes and have very few Muslims. Other African countries which allow polygamy either allow it under customary law but not national law (like South Africa, Botswana, etc.) or have significant Muslim populations (Cameroon, Tanzania, etc.).
Good point about Paraguay…I’d been told the female:male ratio was closer to 8:1 than 4:1, but you may well be right.
Cool, thanks.
Well, Wikipedia may be right. I don’t claim expertise except that this thread isn’t the first time I heard of that war and I knew the belligerents, but that’s mostly it.
A friend was a long term diabetic. He did OK with it but not exceptionally well and by age 40 he was on dialysis. By age 50 he was just done. He had a few more years of pain and a continuing decline in what he was able to do and enjoy but he decided to check out then and there legally. He beefed up his living will to refuse anything other than pain killers and hydration and refused dialysis and all other treatment. Was it fast, dignified and painless? Not totally; took a week or more and the first few days had to hurt like hell. But the job got done and his funeral was held basically on his time schedule. We may want to debate the words “close”, “assisted” or “suicide” but I’ll stand by what I said.
Thirty or 40 years ago, what he did would have been impossible. You simply were not allowed, at least in most of PA, to allow yourself to die like he did. You certainly wouldn’t get the help in pain management he did. We had the machines and the drugs and by God, short of some religious factions, we were going to use them. Unless you were absolutely “beyond end stage” in an understanding hospital that allowed (without admitting it) “slow codes” and other measures like that. Or would at least release you to die at home. Maybe.
To get from where we are now to something you and I would both easily recognize as assisted suicide? I give it 10 years max.