Should the legal drinking age be lowered?

Answer 1

No, instead of lowering it, there should be stronger enforcement and sticter penalties assessed for violations.

AnswerThe above is an opinion. In the US generally the drinking age is 21, in the UK it is 18 in public though if eating a meal you can drink at 16 and if at home you can drink from the age of 5. In most of Southern Europe there is no minimum drinking age, and you often see toddlers with a drop of wine in their water glasses. AnswerNo. Unfortunately there are many who become addicted by starting far too young. The brain of a minor is far more likely to be damaged, and the alcohol industry in this country has caused some serious problems with the culture of alcohol. Their advertising focus seems to be on making alcohol a right of passage. Almost every minor has seen the adds and there is a natural association that suggests that drinking makes you more "grown up".

The simple reality is, drinking doesn't "Make" you anything. If you aren't responsible, you'll be an irresponsible drinker. Raising the legal drinking age just encourages some people to wait until they are a little more mature.

Far more young people die in this country every year from alcohol related causes than from firearms, yet we want to do away with firearms. Young drivers, those under 24, are responsible for far more traffic collisions and fatalities than older drivers; yet there are those who would ask for lowering the drinking age to allow many of those irresponsible younger drivers to be irresponsible about alcohol as well, and potentially drive while impaired.

Alcohol can bring out the "stupid" in people. Young people are already plenty stupid in much of their behavior. "It won't happen to me", is a far more common attitude of young people.

Answer

I disagree at the age of 18 an individual is considered an adult by society and having a drinking age higher than the age of majority only creates discrimination and a feeling of unjust to those at whom the law is aimed there are a couple of things i would like to point out they are as follows:

1. Every other country in the world has a drinking age at 18

2.Drinking at 18 will not damage your brain because if this were true everyone else in the world who began drinking at 18 (and that is everyone living in Another Country other than America) would have severe brain impairments as suggested by Madd (the ones responsible for the worst law in the history of this country)

3.The adult brain does reach full development as it relates to descision making until the mid twenties to thirties(25-30 yrs of age) so this is a clear contradiction to what mothers against drunk driving say that 21 is a right age the fact is the right age for this society is 18 because that is the age of majority

Here are educated arguments for lowering the drinking age