Drinking Age
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The drinking age should never be dropped. It would result in more deaths, teenage pregnancies, and depression issues. Many teens are going to want lower age limits on every drug and adult privileges because they are immature and will want to try new things regardless on the effects that they'll have on them. Younger drinkers will binge drink making them more vulnerable to alcohol abuse. Many drinkers think it makes them feel better but in reality it distorts reality and shows your stupidity. Alcohol mixed with teens is a recipe for disaster. There was a debate on lowering the drinking age last year in which John McCardell, the president of Middlebury College in Vermont, started the movement of trying to lower the drinking age to 18. Many groups opposed his movement, including MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). Even though McCardell wants the law to be changed, he only believes it will help save minors. Either way if the law were to be passed and more fatalities began to occur, he will feel the guilt and the blame, so I believe he hasn't thought that far ahead. Others that are on McCardell's side are agreeing because law enforcment techniques are not working. But even so, there has only been one police chief which is Mark Beckner, chief of police in Boulder, Colorado. The executive director of MADD, Chuck Hurley informed CBS that "When the United States reduced its drinking age in the seventies it was a public health disaster. Death rates in the states that reduced their drinking age jumped 10 to 40 percent." If this was true I can hardly see why someone would think this change would or could be a good idea.
As I wrote last week, the drinking age is 21 and should stay that way for everyone's safety. There are some postings of reasons the drinking age should be changed and they are implying that if you can vote at 18 it should also make you able to drink at 18. This sounds like pure stupidity to me. I believe that some people can be subtle while drinking at the age of 18, but no matter what, that age group is overall wild when mixed with alcohol. None of these reasons people give have a positive reason why it would be better.
Continuing from last week, people insist on coming up with ways to get the drinking age lowered. I believe if they want it changed so badly they should move somewhere where it is legal. Canada for instance has a legal drinking age of 18 in some territories. There's no reason for us to make America a more dangerous place to live just because some kids feel it's unfair. I know people can wait a couple years until drinking is legal for them, some act like it's is a necessity more than the dangerous poison it is in reality.
In the 1980's the drinking age was raised up to the age of 21, the reason for raising it was to reduce the fatalities on the highways. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/19/60minutes/main4813571.shtml
ReplyDeleteTeenagers are not responsible enough to be drinking. At the age of 18 the only thing teens want to do is to party party party. While I am driving my car at night I dont want a bunch of drunk teens driving around me. The title does explain what is going on in the blog. The picture goes along nicely with the blog. Everything in the blog was in order, there were no gaps in information. The arguement was very easy to follow. The title did make me want to continue, overall it was a good blog and you gave a hard case and stuck by your decision. Drinking under the age of 21 is against the law and that is the way it needs to stay.
Lowering the drinking age is not the right thing to do. I think the violence rate and death rate will go up. I saw in your blog that you said teenagers are immature that is why they want the drinking age to be lowered. I would not exactly say that they are immature more like irresponsible when you put it into the wrong hands. The drinking age should stay at 21 because at an older age the decisions you make are wiser and you understand the different consequences behind your actions.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this article, in this blog you mentioned that drinking "distorts reality and shows your stupidity" and you couldn't be more correct. This article sparked my intrests because many people my age today seem to always want the "rock star" lifestyle which mainly results in that person being wasted the majority of the time.
ReplyDeleteTo some this might be a cool way to live and show off how awesome they are, but to others who see people living like this, it makes a bad impression. Not only is such an impression formed, but also serious risks come with drinking. (http://ezinearticles.com/?Alcohol-and-Health-Effects-of-Alcohol-on-the-Body&id=131473) These horrific effects hardly make such a lifestyle worth while.
LATELY, we've been seeing many press reports about organizations and individuals stating that the legal drinking age should be reduced from Additionally, a recent study on youth drinking in more than 30 European countries shows binge drinking and intoxication rates far greater in Europe than in our country. Published by the United States Department of Justice (www.udetc.org/documents/CompareDrinkRate.pdf), the report contradicts the belief that adolescent alcohol use leads to more responsible drinking. On its Web site, the Amethyst Initiative states: Alcohol education that mandates abstinence as the only legal option has not resulted in significant constructive behavioral change among our students.
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