Lowering The Drinking

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How do you measure someone’s maturity? It can’t be
based on the age of an individual. It is different for
every person, in some cases it come very early for. This
brings up a lot of questions like, why are you legal to do
almost everything else at eighteen but to drink you must
wait until twenty-one. The drinking age should be lowered to
eighteen because, you can die for your country, vote for
your nations’ leader and, be tried as an adult in the court
of law.
Sure, dying for your county is a great honor, but what
makes you mature enough to die on the battle field. I guess
your old enough to make the right decision in the line of
fire, unless the shots are tequila or any other alcohol.
Anyone who gets the news that they have to go out to war,
will get little frightened and want a drink to calm
themselves down. Why don’t they make the age to join any
military service twenty one? If your old enough to go out
and kill or be killed, why are you not old enough to drink.
The argument of drinking and driving comes up often.
People would say that the rate of drinking and driving will
become a bigger problem than it is now. Which may be true
but, in the research that I have done the statistics were
for people age 18-24. This means that it is already going
on, which may be wrong but it still is going on. It’s not
like drinking and driving is being made legal, even though
that’s how some people sound when they talk about lowering
the drinking age to eighteen.
Another fear is that is will be easier for younger kids
to get alcohol. According to the National Youth Right
Association, on the frequently asked questions page, “71
percent of eighth graders say it’s very easy to get
alcohol”(www.NYRA.org). That statistic with the drinking age
at twenty one, is it really going to go up much from there.
In a survey on benge drinking among 18-24 year olds done at
Harverd school of public health college,...