Legal drinking age
Should America's legal drinking age be lowered to 18?
Posted By rickz on September 10, 2007
Lowering the age would further encourage under-aged drinking.
Posted By mama_k on September 13, 2007
I think that if you are old enough to make your own financial decisions,...
Posted By Pacific-Writer on September 13, 2007
Drinking has nothing to do with military service, since military service...
Posted By Perdie on September 17, 2007
If alcohol is legal at all, which I don't really think it should be, the...
Posted By phoghawk on September 10, 2007
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Yes. If you're old enough to die for your country, you should be old enough to drink
If alcohol is legal at all, which I don't really think it should be, the legal age should be 18.
-- Posted By phoghawk on September 10, 2007There is no monumental cognitive change between the ages of 18 and 21, so, if anything, 18 is fine. However, I would still encourage everyone not to drink, as it's really quite lame.
What makes anyone think that because the legal age is 21 that people under 21 don't drink? I started at 13. But...I also STOPPED at 22. Had my fill, been there, done that. The drinking age had nothing to do with it.
I think that if you are old enough to make your own financial decisions, choices on firearms, and
-- Posted By Pacific-Writer on September 13, 2007decisions on life and death then you should be able to walk into a bar and buy a beer. .
No, the drinking age isn't perfect, but most 18 year-olds are too irresponsible to be allowed to dri
You might as well because alcohol has a influence in both of these crimes a good part of the time especially when in the hands of younger people.
Drinking has nothing to do with military service, since military service is entirely voluntary.
-- Posted By Perdie on September 17, 2007Being old enough to die for your country does not entitle you to rewrite the laws of the land. One has nothing to do with the other. Twenty one is not a magic age but it does bring the drinking population into a more statistically . safe age range. These statistics are the basis for drinking-age laws. The 'proof' is in the pudding as it should be, and not in the bloodstream of underage drinkers. .
Lowering the age would further encourage under-aged drinking.
-- Posted By mama_k on September 13, 2007Most kids turn 18 when they are in high school, thus making them into potential "buyers" for even more of their underaged classmates. At least with the age limit of 21, it's a little bit harder to find a buyer. Unless, of course, your parents are idiots to think that it's better to know where you are, so they buy the beer for you and host kegs at their own home!
Strange that on a global perspective Americans are the only ones judged too young at 18
-- Posted By visionary1 on September 10, 2007Most other countries allow drinking at 18 or younger. In Europe it is legal for children to drink at home from 8.
As an outsider it appears to me that most Americans would still be too immature at 25!
That's because we Americans live under a "puritanical" veil of B.S. Not just with drinking, but with sex and other things as well. We pretend we're better than everyone, but we have more skeletons in our closets than any other place I have personally been
The drinking age isn't perfect, but lowering it to 18 will create more problems than it'll solve.
-- Posted By rickz on September 10, 2007Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from alcohol-related accidents and from alcohol poisoning. The legal drinking age of 21 isn't perfect, but if we lower it to 18, soon people will want it lowered down even further.
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Michigan-based freelance writer. I write news, features, columns and also do photography. Married with three kids. Politically an independent conservative, I'm pragmatic and feel very frustrated by...