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In all seriousness, and I know this has been used to troll before but let's bring it out of that context: I feel that if you are old enough to go to war and ri
by mrtron 19y ago
In all seriousness, and I know this has been used to troll before but let's bring it out of that context:
I feel that if you are old enough to go to war and risk your life, you are old enough to have a few beers. Now what that arbitrary age is, who knows. But you shouldn't be able to join the military before you can drink in my opinion.
Now from experience, with the drinking age between 18-19, there is little difference at parties compared to the US despite the difference in drinking age. At 16-17 a lot of kids start drinking and are quite irresponsible with it. At 18-20 people begin to mature and handle drinking a bit better, with a few going to the extreme and drinking excessively regularly. At 21+ people tend to lose interest in drinking and gain interest in socializing at parties.
(Anecdotal evidence obviously)
- edw519 19y ago"I feel that if you are old enough to go to war and risk your life" which is exactly why public outcry during the Vietnam war lowered the age to 18 at that time. After the war, statistics strongly suggested raising the age back to 21 to dramatically reduce highway deaths. States had to comply or forfeit federal highway funding (a sure way to get voted out of office). Perhaps the best thing to do is to lower the age to 18 (where it belongs) and make a concerted effort, once and for all, to get all the drunks off the roads, regardless of age.
- mrtron 19y agoI think drinking and driving and the drinking age are two fundamentally different issues. There may be a correlation between the two, maybe even some causation, but drinking can and should be solved in different ways, mainly with education.
- xlnt 19y agohow about lower the age to 10, so people get used to drinking long before they can drive?
- jrockway 19y ago> I feel that if you are old enough to go to war and risk your life, you are old enough to have a few beers. Who cares about war? At 18 you are entitled to be an adult. I feel that if drinking alcohol in moderation doesn't have a detrimental effect on your health to the point that drinking should be illegal, it should be legal. I know other countries let people drink at 16, and they do fine. So I think we should get over our authoritarian complex and just lower the drinking age to 16. People drink anyway, why bother with all this crazy "show your papers" crap? Laws that people ignore should go away.