It is my personal belief that the drinking age should be reduced to eighteen years old. The current drinking laws are not working and are the cause of more damage then they actually prevent. The majority of under age drinkers do so irresponsibly and a large part of this is due to the fact that drinking is viewed as a form of rebellion against the government and authority. Because the current drinking age is not working, our nation needs to change its present approach to the situation in order to promote safer drinking rather then prohibition for young adults.
As a nation we tried prohibition in order to solve drinking problems, in fact it was tried on two separate occasions and it only created more problems. Prohibition was unenforceable and produced new social problems. These prohibition laws failed and were soon repealed. It seems to me that the drinking laws are still failing today and encourage young adults to drink irresponsibly.
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Many other cultures don’t even have a drinking age what so ever and alcohol related problems rarely become an issue. In such cultures irresponsible behavior by youth is not tolerated and young kids learn to handle drinking in a responsible manner. Alcohol is not looked at as a negative thing or a positive thing, people don’t drink to get drunk and there is no social pressure to drink. I think the United States could learn a lot from other more simple cultures.
Not only is the drinking age unreasonable, it is also unfair. Young adults are given the right to vote once they turn eighteen years old, which is a big responsibility, but they still can’t purchase or drink alcohol. At the age of eighteen young men and women can be sent overseas to protect our wonderful nation and to ensure our freedom, yet when they are home they don’t have the freedom to buy or drink alcohol. For most people adulthood starts around the age of eighteen. At this time most people are graduating high school, moving on to college and are out living on their own. If a young adult can be mature enough to live on their own, they should be given the right to drink.
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