Drinking Age Should Be 18 Essay
When you turn 18 you are old enough to fight and die for your country, vote, purchase cigarettes and get married. But at your wedding you wouldn't even be able to participate in your own champagne toast. Some adults like to say that you aren't mature enough or physically able to handle drinking until you are 21.When you are 18 you are judged mature enough to vote, hold public office, serve on juries, serve in the military possibly die for your country, fly airplanes, sign contracts and so on. Why is drinking a beer an act of greater responsibility and maturity than flying an airplane or serving your country at war? The truth is that its not. Your body and mind improve all through out life. A 21 year old is different from an 18 year old,
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If nothing else, they should have the right to relieve themselves from the many stressful situations they suffer from. Alcohol can potentially cause problems for all people. This is a fact and it doesn't matter if your 21 or not. If a person wished to ban alcohol for the entire population equally, there really would be no reason to stand in their way. Wanting or believing that the drinking age should be lowered doesn't mean that you are "pro-alcohol", rather it makes you "pro-youth" because the main thing is that you find it hypocritical that adults point their finger at youth while holding a beer in the other hand. It is time we recognize, and discuss the truth about alcohol rather than creating a young scapegoat for society to blame their alcohol troubles on. Through education, gradual entry, and a relaxing of strict no-use policy towards youth will make drinking safer for people of all ages. One of the most misguided facts out there was that raising the drinking age saved about 20,000 lives though drinking and driving fatalities. This is an over used statistic that is circulated and usually not stated completely by the Youth Prohibitionist movement. The truth is as researchers Peter Asch and David Levy put it, the "minimum legal drinking age is not a
If nothing else, they should have the right to relieve themselves from the many stressful situations they suffer from. Alcohol can potentially cause problems for all people. This is a fact and it doesn't matter if your 21 or not. If a person wished to ban alcohol for the entire population equally, there really would be no reason to stand in their way. Wanting or believing that the drinking age should be lowered doesn't mean that you are "pro-alcohol", rather it makes you "pro-youth" because the main thing is that you find it hypocritical that adults point their finger at youth while holding a beer in the other hand. It is time we recognize, and discuss the truth about alcohol rather than creating a young scapegoat for society to blame their alcohol troubles on. Through education, gradual entry, and a relaxing of strict no-use policy towards youth will make drinking safer for people of all ages. One of the most misguided facts out there was that raising the drinking age saved about 20,000 lives though drinking and driving fatalities. This is an over used statistic that is circulated and usually not stated completely by the Youth Prohibitionist movement. The truth is as researchers Peter Asch and David Levy put it, the "minimum legal drinking age is not a