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Should the legal drinking age be 21?

In today’s society adulthood is the age in every person’s life where they are considered responsible for their actions. Responsibility is something that doesn’t necessarily come with age, but according to our society age is everything. A young person sometimes waits years just to participate in something that they consider important to them. Many people reach maturity at different points in their life, but due to the age restrictions on almost everything today, that maturity ultimately has nothing to do with their respected lifestyle choices. Many people believe it is ethical to allow a man to die for his country, get married and start a family, but deny him the right to consume alcohol before he is twenty-one years of age.

Let’s step back and think of some things that are governed by age restrictions. Does it seem right that a young boy must wait until he is twelve years of age just to go hunting with his father? Is it ethical that a teenager waits until he or she is sixteen to drive a motor vehicle? Is a teenager truly considered an adult at age eighteen? These questions along with many others are what many people need to ask themselves. In olden day times boys of twelve were responsible for the hunting activities of the family. They were expected to be able to drive and operate farm machinery in order to help in the every day activities that there family took part in. At age eighteen they were considered adults and were trusted to take part in adult activities.

As times progressed and society modernized many of these viewpoints have strayed. Many things that people were accustomed to doing have simply fallen by the way side. Common practices of yesterday have been changed to the right way of today. In today’s day and age it is standard that at age eighteen a person is considered an adult and is respected in almost every way as such. It is...