how are you even considered an adult if you can't even drink? you can basically do everything else! i think you should be an adult when your 21 or change the drinking age to 18. but either way, if your considered an adult, then you should be able to drink.
people are going to drink at whatever age they want! that's the thing that people don't understand. when young people have to hide it, is when they start driving drunk instead of calling someone to pick them up. that was my point. raising the age isn't going to prevent underage people from drinking
I don't really care for drinking cause I'm not a heavy drinker, but I just think it's morally unethical to have the age at 21, when you can basically sign yourself up for death at the age of 18...
that's true, young people will drink no matter what. i think twenty one y/o is right where it should be. we can't stop drunk driving but we can do our best.
When you tell a large group of people that they cannot do something, inevitably you are going to have law breakers. It is our nature, I believe to test the boundaries. If the oppression is heavy, the testing may become secretive, but it is never obliterated. Furthermore, if the oppression is heavy, a inevitable reaction will occur. We are apt to put up with a lot, but there is a line. What is the line for drinking age?
I don't think the drinking age should be lowered than it already is. If so, there would be a lot of irresponsible people out there. Either they raise the age or leave it.
I don't know English 49, it seems like a road that leads to nowhere because we are always gonna have immature party people all over America. No matter what happens to the drinking age, I believe things are going to remain the same for the most part.
not everyone who drinks gets in their car and kills someone. yes it HAS happened, but people under 21 are also responsible for this so the age should be lowered. and i agree that if we are treated as adults in every other aspect why cant we drink too? my step mom goes home after a long day and pours herself a stiff one. On days that suck it would be super sick to just go home and relax with a beer. thats just how it is. and that doesnt mean im about to go drive somewhere and hurt someone. I would just be enjoying myself.
sure, their are plenty of rebelious teens out there that only want to drink underage so they can break the rules, but the majority of them just want to change their state of mind, and if we lower the drinking age, it will only result in more bad drivers on the weekends
It seems that the line is a question of freedom. When do we want freedom and when will we recieve it? The issue appears to be one of choice and the lack of choice. Teen agers chose to drink even when the law states that they should not have a choice. Perhaps, if we lowered the drinking age, giving teens a choice, they might chose more wisely. Perhaps we can help them make wiser choices.
I understand your point, but how do you respond to the statistics in countries like Spain, where the drinking age is lower and the bars are open for all ages to enter. They perportedly have less alcohol abuse issues. We tend to have an unsightly reputation of having too many teens who drink obscene amounts of alcohol. The other day i sqay a guy leaving his house with a double ended beer bong! The image I got was that the youth are drinking just to get drunk, an escape from the pressures?
im not going to sit here and argue about who's more responsible with you mia, maybe you really can handle yourself, and if you can, that's great, but you have to consider the entire population
I remember growing up as a child I always counted half of a year to my age to make me sound older/cooler. Come on you know we all did it..HAHA! Regardless I think people in general are programmed to out-grow themselves.
i agree with ENGLISH 49 and MICHAEL. but we really can't control the people who don't know how to handle themselves under the influence. i think that is the only problem about this whole situation. people at any age drink&drive.
but even if we lower the drinking age prof, the pressure will still be there. that's our society, full of pressure, that's why we have so much alcohol abuse. but lowering the drinking age won't lower teen alcohol abuse, teen in this country will still feel the weight of the world on our shoulders because that's just the way things are
LOWERING THE DRINKING AGE WOULD CAUSE ALOT MORE DEATH AND ALCOHOLISM THATS THE BOTTOM LINE READ THE FACTS AND STATISTICS MORE THAN HALF OF THE PEOPLE THAT DIE IN DUI CRASHES ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 21 DO YOU THINK LOWERING THAT AGE WOULD CAUSE LESS DEATH
Mia, Where as it maybe nice to drink to the stress of a hard day, meditation or yoga is far more productive/effective as well as better for your over all heath.
To english 49, I agree that if we do lower it Teens might be more responsible. But the key word is MIGHT. Doing that sounds like it would be a trail and error process, except with Human lives at risk. Do we really want to take that risk?
English 49, That's exactly what it is. People now days are drinking to get drunk. But with countries like Spain there was no law/punishment for going into a bar and experiencing alcohol at an early age. To them drinking is not a big deal because they were raised with no bans on alcohol, if America did this, I think it would be the same as Spain, but it will take at least a half a century for people to understand that drinking isn't all that glamorious.
i also do think that since drinking is made into such a big deal, it intrigues people to want to do it more. it arouses so much curiousity to younger kids and teens. that is why it is such a problem. if we didn't view it as a big deal, young people wouldn't care as much because it's normal
Why is drinking cool? Why do we glamorize it and demonize it? It seems that there are some issues that our society will not face. wE TRIED TO PROHIBIT ALCOHOL, BUT IT FAILED. maNY FAMILIES BECAME DISGUSTINGLY WEALTHY THROUGH because prohibition created a black marcket. It seems that the more we press down the more will come out the sides. The idea is that we cannot eliminate it, but we can change the way people think about it. I propose removing restrictions so that we are not forcing an image of alcohol as a key to freedom, freedom at 21 or ealier. Alcohol consumption at 21 is a "rite of passage." It is the point when you become a full citizen. Can we have full citizens at a younger age. If you are not mature enough for alcohol at 18 I sure do not want you to vote.
people like to drink because it's fun, that's the only reason we like it. not because we feel like we're badass. same thing with weed. we dont do it to feel cool we do it to change our perception of reality. the only people who drink or do drugs to fit in or be cool are kids in middle school
ITS LIKE WHEN U SEE AN ADD FOR A NEW IPOD U INSTANTLY WANT TO GO CHECK IT OUT, RIGHT?....WHEN U SEE AN ADD FOR VODKA OF A NEW FLAVOR U WANT TO GO TASTE IT RIGHT? HAHAHA...THATS SOCIETY
Great point English 49. I agree with you that drinking is glamorized by the media. When you watch commercials advertising alcohol there's always an attractive looking person drinking. Why don't they show a true alcoholic drinking with a full blown beer belly. It's all politics and the alcohol business has billions of dollars to push there money making ideas to us. Even Seaworld is owned by Anheiser Busch...
I imagine that if we lower the drinking age to 18, we will have problems with 11 year olds. I know the drinking age is 21 but 14 year olds are trying to be cool. What will it take to get Americans not to be looking for alcohol as the rebellious tool.
but then you would be disregarding the other part of the population that is responsible. if everyone wwas as stupid as you say more accidents than reported wopuld be happening
how are you even considered an adult if you can't even drink? you can basically do everything else! i think you should be an adult when your 21 or change the drinking age to 18. but either way, if your considered an adult, then you should be able to drink.
ReplyDeleteyea then you get an extra 20 million drunk drivers on the road killing people
ReplyDeleteRaise drinking age until people are responsible enough to drink.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html check the links
ReplyDeletehttp://www.duipictures.com/statisti.htm
ReplyDeleteI feel like DUI could be taken care of if someone else drove them home. But I don't support drinking at all.
ReplyDeleteif it's not broke don't fix it
ReplyDeletejust leave it where it is, i want to be able to drink when im 21, but i dont need to be able to any sooner either
ReplyDeletei think should stay the same.
ReplyDeleteok, case closed!
ReplyDeletei knew someone that got a dui in california. and they were supposedly not allowed to drive for a year. and had to take classes
ReplyDeleteMANICMIKE totally right. You'll be just adding more drunk drivers on the road and with less experience with driving
ReplyDeletepeople are going to drink at whatever age they want! that's the thing that people don't understand. when young people have to hide it, is when they start driving drunk instead of calling someone to pick them up. that was my point. raising the age isn't going to prevent underage people from drinking
ReplyDeleteI don't really care for drinking cause I'm not a heavy drinker, but I just think it's morally unethical to have the age at 21, when you can basically sign yourself up for death at the age of 18...
ReplyDeleteWho has never drank in there life before besides me? yeah we're pretty sad! (but sober) :)
ReplyDeletethat's true, young people will drink no matter what. i think twenty one y/o is right where it should be. we can't stop drunk driving but we can do our best.
ReplyDeleteWhen you tell a large group of people that they cannot do something, inevitably you are going to have law breakers. It is our nature, I believe to test the boundaries. If the oppression is heavy, the testing may become secretive, but it is never obliterated. Furthermore, if the oppression is heavy, a inevitable reaction will occur. We are apt to put up with a lot, but there is a line. What is the line for drinking age?
ReplyDeleteThe line is that you have to be responsible and know have to control it, otherwise you shouldn't drink.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the drinking age should be lowered than it already is. If so, there would be a lot of irresponsible people out there. Either they raise the age or leave it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know English 49, it seems like a road that leads to nowhere because we are always gonna have immature party people all over America. No matter what happens to the drinking age, I believe things are going to remain the same for the most part.
ReplyDeletei am sober but i had to learn the hard way i got a dui
ReplyDeletenot everyone who drinks gets in their car and kills someone. yes it HAS happened, but people under 21 are also responsible for this so the age should be lowered. and i agree that if we are treated as adults in every other aspect why cant we drink too? my step mom goes home after a long day and pours herself a stiff one. On days that suck it would be super sick to just go home and relax with a beer. thats just how it is. and that doesnt mean im about to go drive somewhere and hurt someone. I would just be enjoying myself.
ReplyDeletesure, their are plenty of rebelious teens out there that only want to drink underage so they can break the rules, but the majority of them just want to change their state of mind, and if we lower the drinking age, it will only result in more bad drivers on the weekends
ReplyDeleteIt seems that the line is a question of freedom. When do we want freedom and when will we recieve it? The issue appears to be one of choice and the lack of choice. Teen agers chose to drink even when the law states that they should not have a choice. Perhaps, if we lowered the drinking age, giving teens a choice, they might chose more wisely. Perhaps we can help them make wiser choices.
ReplyDeleteteens ARE NOT mature enough to drink unassisted, get your head out of the clouds man
ReplyDeleteyeah, that may be true but teens would drink even more when the age was 18. and there were wayyy more drunk drvin deaths
ReplyDeletejust because YOU cant drink unassisted doesnt mean the rest of us cant.
ReplyDeleteIs freedom really free? Everything has it's price, and we as Americans aren't really free.
ReplyDeleteit's pretty normal for teens to think they're more mature than they really are. the gov. raised the age for protection from ourselves
ReplyDeleteANthony,
ReplyDeleteI understand your point, but how do you respond to the statistics in countries like Spain, where the drinking age is lower and the bars are open for all ages to enter. They perportedly have less alcohol abuse issues. We tend to have an unsightly reputation of having too many teens who drink obscene amounts of alcohol. The other day i sqay a guy leaving his house with a double ended beer bong! The image I got was that the youth are drinking just to get drunk, an escape from the pressures?
im not going to sit here and argue about who's more responsible with you mia, maybe you really can handle yourself, and if you can, that's great, but you have to consider the entire population
ReplyDeleteI remember growing up as a child I always counted half of a year to my age to make me sound older/cooler. Come on you know we all did it..HAHA! Regardless I think people in general are programmed to out-grow themselves.
ReplyDeletei agree with ENGLISH 49 and MICHAEL. but we really can't control the people who don't know how to handle themselves under the influence. i think that is the only problem about this whole situation. people at any age drink&drive.
ReplyDeletebut even if we lower the drinking age prof, the pressure will still be there. that's our society, full of pressure, that's why we have so much alcohol abuse. but lowering the drinking age won't lower teen alcohol abuse, teen in this country will still feel the weight of the world on our shoulders because that's just the way things are
ReplyDeleteLOWERING THE DRINKING AGE WOULD CAUSE ALOT MORE DEATH AND ALCOHOLISM THATS THE BOTTOM LINE READ THE FACTS AND STATISTICS MORE THAN HALF OF THE PEOPLE THAT DIE IN DUI CRASHES ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 21 DO YOU THINK LOWERING THAT AGE WOULD CAUSE LESS DEATH
ReplyDeleteMia,
ReplyDeleteWhere as it maybe nice to drink to the stress of a hard day, meditation or yoga is far more productive/effective as well as better for your over all heath.
To english 49, I agree that if we do lower it Teens might be more responsible. But the key word is MIGHT. Doing that sounds like it would be a trail and error process, except with Human lives at risk. Do we really want to take that risk?
ReplyDeleteno matter wat drinking age will never be lowered if anything they might even raise the age.
ReplyDeleteEnglish 49,
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what it is. People now days are drinking to get drunk. But with countries like Spain there was no law/punishment for going into a bar and experiencing alcohol at an early age. To them drinking is not a big deal because they were raised with no bans on alcohol, if America did this, I think it would be the same as Spain, but it will take at least a half a century for people to understand that drinking isn't all that glamorious.
i agree with igloo, it's not worth the risk. statistics have shown that drunk driving deaths decreased dramatically once we raised the drinking age
ReplyDeleteI DONT MIND THE DRINKING AGE...IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT CULTURE U COME FROM....ALCOHOL IS JUST A DRINK!! THATS IT.
ReplyDeletei also do think that since drinking is made into such a big deal, it intrigues people to want to do it more. it arouses so much curiousity to younger kids and teens. that is why it is such a problem. if we didn't view it as a big deal, young people wouldn't care as much because it's normal
ReplyDeleteWhy is drinking cool? Why do we glamorize it and demonize it? It seems that there are some issues that our society will not face. wE TRIED TO PROHIBIT ALCOHOL, BUT IT FAILED. maNY FAMILIES BECAME DISGUSTINGLY WEALTHY THROUGH because prohibition created a black marcket. It seems that the more we press down the more will come out the sides. The idea is that we cannot eliminate it, but we can change the way people think about it. I propose removing restrictions so that we are not forcing an image of alcohol as a key to freedom, freedom at 21 or ealier. Alcohol consumption at 21 is a "rite of passage." It is the point when you become a full citizen. Can we have full citizens at a younger age. If you are not mature enough for alcohol at 18 I sure do not want you to vote.
ReplyDeletewell you cant just tell people not to take it seriously, whatr you gonna do, brainwash the whole friggin country?
ReplyDelete9 teens die every day from alcohol related incidents (http://www.sdyouthcouncil.org/campaigns/2005.html)
ReplyDeletepeople like to drink because it's fun, that's the only reason we like it. not because we feel like we're badass. same thing with weed. we dont do it to feel cool we do it to change our perception of reality. the only people who drink or do drugs to fit in or be cool are kids in middle school
ReplyDeleteITS LIKE WHEN U SEE AN ADD FOR A NEW IPOD U INSTANTLY WANT TO GO CHECK IT OUT, RIGHT?....WHEN U SEE AN ADD FOR VODKA OF A NEW FLAVOR U WANT TO GO TASTE IT RIGHT? HAHAHA...THATS SOCIETY
ReplyDeletedrinking alcohol kills your brain cells and hurts your liver along with other organs in your body
ReplyDeletealcohol takes years and years to kill brain cells, it's only really bad for your liver
ReplyDeleteGreat point English 49. I agree with you that drinking is glamorized by the media. When you watch commercials advertising alcohol there's always an attractive looking person drinking. Why don't they show a true alcoholic drinking with a full blown beer belly. It's all politics and the alcohol business has billions of dollars to push there money making ideas to us. Even Seaworld is owned by Anheiser Busch...
ReplyDeleteI imagine that if we lower the drinking age to 18, we will have problems with 11 year olds. I know the drinking age is 21 but 14 year olds are trying to be cool. What will it take to get Americans not to be looking for alcohol as the rebellious tool.
ReplyDeletebut then you would be disregarding the other part of the population that is responsible. if everyone wwas as stupid as you say more accidents than reported wopuld be happening
ReplyDelete