Drinking age at 18?

Question

I am actually above 21 and never drink, but the issue of lowering the drinking age to 18 seems to be coming up alot. do you think the age should be lowewed.

An example of a similar case was lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. Nixon signed it because he figured if at 18 you can be drafted into vietnam, you should also be able to vote.

So in today's world, why give equal responsibilities and equal consequenses but not equal rights? If you can fight and die for your country at 18, be charged as an adult for crimes at 18, and be fully responsible for your actions at 18, shouldnt you be able to drink? Society wants to place all these restrictions on young ppl (who at 18 are adults whether you want them to be or not) but dont want to give them equal rights such as drinking, and some states you have to be 19 to buy tobacco or 21 to rent a car......so if you have equal consequences and equal responsibilities, shouldnt you be allowed to drink responsibly?

Answer 1

I do think the drinking age should be lowered to 18. After all, people that age are legally adults and they should be able to enjoy all the privileges available to adults. I also believe that binge drinking in colleges and young people going to Mexico to get drunk have gotten worse since the drinking age was raised in all states. When I turned 18 over 30 years ago, most states still had a legal drinking age of 18. While drinking occurred among college students, I don't remember it being near the problem it is today. Basically, I see it as being an example of "forbidden fruit". The fact that most college students are too young to drink legally makes binge drinking that much more attractive to many of them.

Answer 2

Where I live the legal drinking age is 18.

So I guess they hold the same views as you.

Answer 3

teenagers will still drink regardless