Drinking age legal at age 18 if you take public transportation?!
So if you're old enough to enlist, oh, pardon, volunteer, why aren't you old enough to imbibe? This chestnut goes back to Vietnam....when the same question was being asked.......
Mothers Against Drunk Driving want to keep the legal age at 21. I'm a mother and I think the answer is how the Europeans llive. You take public transportation, then you don't have to "drink and drive".
Old people need public transportation when their eyesight and depth perception goes, poor people who can't afford all the insurance and rising gas prices, parapalegic people who can't drive, and folks with mental disorders can't drive either.
If the young people would step up and DEMAND public transportation they could drink and move at age 18 and help all of the rest of us who need help....we need more bullet trains and metros like Europe...less dependancy on gas and greedy Exxon
...and thank you for your sup
Answers: Obviously drinking and driving doesn't mix...unlike being 18 and going to Iraq....
So if you're old enough to enlist, oh, pardon, volunteer, why aren't you old enough to imbibe? This chestnut goes back to Vietnam....when the same question was being asked.......
Mothers Against Drunk Driving want to keep the legal age at 21. I'm a mother and I think the answer is how the Europeans llive. You take public transportation, then you don't have to "drink and drive".
Old people need public transportation when their eyesight and depth perception goes, poor people who can't afford all the insurance and rising gas prices, parapalegic people who can't drive, and folks with mental disorders can't drive either.
If the young people would step up and DEMAND public transportation they could drink and move at age 18 and help all of the rest of us who need help....we need more bullet trains and metros like Europe...less dependancy on gas and greedy Exxon
...and thank you for your sup
OK, instead of making it legal to drink at 18, how about making it illegal to sign up for the military until age 21? We'd have a lot fewer soldiers if they had that much time to think about it, wouldn't we?
21, no matter what vehicle you ride/drive.
Sorry, I don't think so. If the drinking age in Iraq is 18, let them go to town, but as long as people are driving on my streets, I want them to be at least 21. 25 would be better. Besides, your parents' insurance premium would go even farther through the roof.
-MM
Public transportation works much better in Europe because the country is much smaller. We have public transportation here where it is feasible, but our cities are more spread out.
Of note, the cities where light rail is used and works the best are ALL coastal cities, and/or cities along other large bodies of water, like Chicago. This is because the cities are forced to spread in a more linear fashion, thereby making it more cost effective to provide this form of transportation.
I agree with you that if you are old enough to die for your country, then you are old enough to drink - and frankly, old enough to pay the consequences if you drink and drive. But people are selfish, and want to have it all the ways. There isn't a cure for that.
All we need is 18 year old drunk punks on the bus making lewd remarks at women and pushing people around as they bus home from the pub!
I'm torn on this issue. I believe if you're old enough to die for your country, you should be old enough to legally have a beer.
And yet, so many accidents happen when young people drink. I'm 22 now, and even in those who are legal, but are still younger, alcohol poses a big problem. Some of my friends have gotten seriously injured, slept with people they don't know, etc.
I guess there is no solution to this problem that is going to make everyone happy.
I had to point out a few comments here. . . . To Wonder, did you really think the question implied the drinking age was 18 in Iraq? You think THAT'S what people are worried about in Iraq? I think she was more implying that 18 year old kids are serving our country in Iraq, but I guess I could be wrong. . . .Bottom line is, drinking makes you do stupid things at ANY age. You don't have to be young to drink and then do something stupid like hurt yourself, or sleep around, etc. So I don't know if changing the age would only make things worse. . .