Drinking Age
It is legal for eighteen year-olds to go to war and die for their country, it is legal for eighteen year-olds to marry, and it is legal for eighteen year-olds to go to a real prison and be put to death, it is legal for eighteen year olds to do mostly anything you can think of. But why isn't it legal for eighteen year-olds to drink? I don't think that is right, and I believe that the drinking age in the United States should be lowered from twenty one years of age, to eighteen. For the most part, the drinking age does not stop young people from drinking. There are so many easy ways for minors to get in contact with alcohol whether its using fake I.D.'s to purchase it, stealing it from parents, or having someone who is of the legal age purchase it for them. If a person does not drink underage, then most likely he will not when he turns twenty-one and is legal. To adults, drinking alcohol is no big deal, but to minors it is. Like the old saying goes "You want what you can't have". And since it is so forbidden for a person under the age of twenty-one to drink alcohol the consumption of alcohol is a thrill to these people. Minors feel as though they are living on the edge and rebelling agains
The majority of the population believes that the drinking age should stay at twenty-one. These people believe that people under the age of twenty-one are not mature enough to handle the heavy responsibility that comes with drinking. This is a false assumption. Some eighteen year olds are more mature and responsible than some thirty year olds. These people do not take into effect that most eighteen, nineteen, and twenty year-olds are either getting prepared to go to war to save our country in the armed forces, working a full time job to support themselves or a family, or are up to their ears in tons of heavy college work. I believe that if these people are responsible enough to do such things, they should be responsible enough to drink a beer. Since it is hard for some young people to obtain alcohol, they will find alternatives to drinking. Often these alternatives are recreational drugs and narcotics, which are more addictive than alcohol, and definitely more dangerous. An accidental overdose is very likely to happen. It could just creep up on you without you even knowing. With alcohol a person can realize they have had enough once they start to feel nauseous or throwing up. I think most adults would rather ha
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