The drinking age should stay the same.
There is no point in lowering it because it will simply encourage teenagers to drink. I believe the younger teens will think they will be able to get away with drinking just like the older teens did. The situation is bad enough, why make it worse? People drinking and driving is an issue already. The average 18-year-old has at least one year of driving. So someone that is so young and doesn’t have any experience with drinking may make a decision to drive back home from the party, and they could very well kill themselves and other people. On a positive view, if the drinking age is lowered, parents would have another reason to talk to their kids about drinking which would hopefully educate them more thoroughly. However, adults don’t need excuses to talk to children about future influences.
My point is the underage drinking will never cease to exist. Whether you lower it or higher it, underage drinkers will bend the rules and get away with drinking. It’s best to just keep it the way it is, because it’s too controversial and there will always be problems surrounding alcohol.
Exactly!! People will never change. No matter how the drinking age is viewed, there will always be people stupid enough to try to bend the rules in their favor.
ReplyDeleteSome good thoughts on your part, Libby, so I'll throw you another question: at what point does the majority of the population become mature enough to let them drink freely? Is 21 right, or should it be something else entirely?
ReplyDeleteFood for thought. :-)
I agree with you when it comes to alcahol will always be an issue. My parents have never told me not to drink or not participate in other activities that may cause harm to my body, but then again I have never been swayed to participate in such things. Some teenagers are they type where if you tell them not to drink they are going to do it anyway. A perfect example of that is the drinking age being 21. Because the drinking age is 21, more teenagers drink. I agree with you when you say the drinking age should not be lowered, because I do not think it is very healthy or wise, but then again, if it was lowered I believe less people would be drinking.
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