The Benefits Of Lowering Drinking Age

One of the reasons why the legal drinking age should be lowered is because it would diminish the thrill of breaking the law to get a drink. According to Ruth C. Engs, Pofessor, Applied Health Sciences, “Although the legal purchase age is 21 years of age, a majority of college students under this age consume alcohol but in an irresponsible manner. This is because drinking by these youth is seen as an enticing "forbidden fruit," a "badge of rebellion against authority" and a symbol of adulthood." This implies, students and people under the age of 21 will drink in an irresponsible manner because of peer pressure or just wanting to show adults that they don’t have to listen to them anymore. This also shows, if legal drinking age was lowered then most students and people under the age of 21 would learn that they don’t need to rebel to get a drink or break laws and since 18 year olds get a lot of responsibility like voting, this would add to it and show that they can be trusted with not over drinking.
It's no big deal. By contrast, where it's banned until age 21, there's something of the 'forbidden fruit' syndrome." This entails, when something is given restriction or forbidden till a certain age, most teenagers or youngsters will go out of their way to break it just because it’s prohibited. This also demonstrates, if teenagers are given the responsibility to drink alcohol when they get many other responsibilties like voting it will help them take on more responsibility to see what they can handle. Therefore, by lowering the drinking age, it will decrease the amount of teenagers binge drinking because they want to rebel against authority and feel that by binge drinking it will get their