What is the pros of the drinking age in the United States?!
What is the pros of the drinking age in the United States?
i need the pro's of the drinking age being 21 and the the pro's of the drinking age if it were to be under 21?
Answers:
Although underage drinking seems to run rampant in this country, I believe that the 21 age limit is a good thing. (So, "Pro".)
Teenagers don't seem to realize how vunerable and persuasive that their peers can be at those age levels, and to add alcohol to the mix just doesn't help them. Thats' mostly what leads to all the stupid stunts that our kids' in this country do today. I can't tell you how many peers I've lost of my class to drunk driving and how many of them could have died, but were very lucky that they didn't. And although I know that there are also some adults that don't think for themselves either, I think that by the age of 21 most people have grown up some, and will most likely act responsibly when they do decide to drink.
The best thing to remember is that laws this country has were not made to make everything boring, they were made to keep its' citizens safe.
pros of 21: Harder for minors to get alcohol
pros of under 21: less illegal drinking, easier to monitor who is drinking, minors will not want to do it as much if it is legal, and minors will not over drink
pro- you get a little more time in your life before you become a full fledged degenerate, you are supposedly more responsible by then.
con- you have the right to vote, and fight in war yet, your not mature enough to handle alcohol.
Pros of drinking age being 91:
- No more alcohol related driving accidents
- No more drunks lining the streets
- No more fetal alcohol syndrome
- No more wasted lives and marriages
Pros of drinking age under 91:
- Reverse all of the above items.
I've said this before and I'll say it again.
They should either lower the drinking age to 18 or raise the enlistment age to the armed services to 21. I think it's a damn shame that they think an 18 year old is old enough to die for his or her country but they're not old enough to buy a frickin' beer!