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"But what do we achieve from the knowledge that British girls are the biggest binge-drinkers - of course they are, it is such a socially acceptable drug here. I think the bigger question is why do people feel the need to do it. Is everyone that messed up that they need to be off their heads all the time?" -- "Sarah", 24 year old interviewee in an Observer / Guardian Unlimited article about binge drinking, 2003-12-21.
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I'm an MIT quasi-alum, and I was furious that the public discourse around the Krueger death centered around underage drinking. Like it wouldn't have been a tragedy if he'd only been 21 when he drank himself to death!
But it's so much more comfortable to focus the conversation on trivialities like age, instead of asking the killer question: "What's wrong with MIT that so many students feel the need to self-medicate with alcohol?"