Why is underage drinking bad?!
Answers: If you compare a 18 year old and a 70 year old, the 18 year old has a younger body. This means that he/she would have a liver which could process alcohol better than an 70 year old. So isn't underage drinking or younger age drinking (<35years)good?
ashwin....stop being a french canadian and go get your drink on!
Lots of laws don't make any sense.
Because the younger you start drinking, the more likely it is that you become an alcoholic.
And the more damage you will do to your body in a lifetime.
Drinking is never good for anyone. At 18 you aren't smart enough to do the rigth thing sober most of the time. You add booze to the equation and you really don't get it right. If you did, maybe there wouldn't be so many bad teenage drivers out there on the road.
Physically an 18 year old should be able to process alcohol just fine. However if you look at the maturity levels of people nowadays, it decreasing. A typical 18 year old still acts like a child. We don't make laws for the people who are responsible. We make them to protect the irresponsible ones. It seems kids are getting more rebellious at a younger age. I hear too many stories of 13 year olds getting drunk. It's not safe and it's a bad way to start your life.
Also, your logic does not make sense. Doing something bad (alcohol is more toxic than most things) is never good. You can't say that because someone is younger, they can process something better. Drinking is not going to help you.
Well everybody is different. The old man may drink more and act right. Doesn't get out of hand and isn't a fool. Not a good idea to be drinking at that age. And the young guy can get a little too drunk and pass out and choke on his own vomit and die. Or just gets out of hand, doesn't think wisely, is more likely to get in to trouble or get arrested for something, become violent, passes out quicker, becomes less and less motivated, starts or has an attutide problem, forgets things, may start stealing, and if he/she keeps it up...alcohol is the decision maker, more likely to lose a job or termination, get a DUI, end up in jail for alcohol related offense, get into fights, grade in school starts to get lower, can't get alone with parents or siblings, runs away, cares more about hanging out with friends than family, thinks about sucide, has a negative attutide towards life, other people, authority, law, etc. compare to an old man. How many times have you heard of an old man doing these kind of things?
No because the alcohol causes damage to the liver which will just comlicate things when you get to be 70. They are trying to look out for you in the long run.
dont be a ***** get ta drinkin. rules are made to be broken. and just because you start drinking earlier doesnt increase your chances of alcoholism, in parts of europe the legal age is as young as 14 and they have proportionally less alcoholics.
HORMONES!
Drunk teens creative pregnancies
Younger people (<21, ironically), have two things going against them:
1.) Body is physically not fully developed. The brain is still forming. Getting drunk here is a bad thing, especially on any form of regular basis. If you don't get drunk until you are 18, that's not going to be as bad as getting drunk earlier, but if you wait until you are 21-22, then the damage you cause is greatly reduced. In short, you stunt brain growth by drinking too much.
2.) Younger people have a higher risk of addiction. Virtually every smoker that is over 30 started before they were 18. You see practically no one decide to start smoking at 21, 25, 30 or 70.
You are indeed correct that an 18 year old's liver is better suited to process alcohol than a 70 year olds. In fact, a 4 year old can process alcohol in the liver better than an 18 year old. Funny, isn't it? Your argument clearly does not work in the favor of lowering the drinking age. If anything, you make an argument that drinking should be prohibited AFTER you turn 21. We all know this is not true, and that the risk of causing an underdeveloped brain and an addiction far outweigh your body's ability to handle the alcohol.
The other thing, which is fairly obvious, a 70 year old tends to not drink on a regular basis, and when they do, they know from years of experience that they shouldn't have much. Then again, how funny would it be to see a group of wasted grandparents?
drinking isn't good for anyone but underage drinking is still ok