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No way they should be 21;-)) |
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Lowered to 18 I would think if you are old enough to go die for your country you are old enough to
have a drink. |
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I will just say that there are a plethora of Europeans who do not touch alcohol because of things
they have seen happen to others who had done the same thing. So that is a big positive because they
will tell their friends not to. Personal friends of mine are going to Iraq to shoot some poor sucker
in between the eyes or get shot themselves but yet they cannot lift up a beer for a toast legally in
the United States... |
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In my opinion, there are several reasons why we should lower age restrictions, or have no age
restrictions at all:
1. Europeans are accustomed to drinking alcohol at a young age. They learn their limits and have a
tendency to drink with other family members
2. Once teenagers enter college, they are bound to drink at parties... & teenagers get alcohol
anyway.
3. Having an age restriction makes it more tantalizing. Or, people always want things they can't
have.
4. Some teenager may get the notion that they are "cool" if they obtain alcohol.
The main problem is the abuse of the alcohol. |
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For real?! WOW! I've never seen people disagree with this before. I'm 20 and alcoholic drinks
still taste bad. Nobody ever mentions that it's got a natural limit called taste bud maturation or
something like that. My dad always let me taste his drinks and they always tasted bad. Drinking is
(not all but I definitely believe mostly) a revolt and a challenge to authority and it's biggest in
frosh/soph year in colleges and high schools because everyone is under 21. |
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I agree if you are old enough to smoke then why cant you drive ?
It doesn't matter if its illegal most likely a 15 year old parent would let there child drinks
something alcoholic |
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Definitely. Although I'm an Australian, The drinking age should be lowered because it makes people
eventually more responsible, and more immune to alcohol. |
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I say why not, it would also help with our enormous deficits on the state level as adding those
18-20 year old drinkers would collect more tax dollars for education or infrastructure repair. If
you can die for your country you should be able to drink in your country. |
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I completely agree. If someone is old enough to vote, answer for himself, and give his life for the
country, he's old enough to have a beer if that's what he wants. |
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There should be no alcohol age limit at all. We have a prohibition against alcohol still. The
first prohibition didn't work and either is this prohibition against teenagers. We need to see that
there is a better way to get kids to stop drinking alcohol. There is not a special age where people
automatically are able to assume the 'responsibilities' of drinking alcohol. Many would argue that
even the 20-year-olds are not responsible when drinking alcohol. But no one even talks about
raising the drinking age. We are able to see the difficulties in setting a higher drinking age
limit, but for some reason we can't apply that to lowering the drinking age limit. We have to
follow the logic all the way all the time. We don't need to say what is exactly good for people or
what is bad for them. Freedom is what should be valued. |
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In European countries, the drinking age is lower compared to United State's. This results in
drinking not standing as such a major deal to European minors- it'd be like drinking water for us
minors in the states. The lowered drinking age would result in drinking standing as a less "big
thing" for teenagers, reducing the parties and other events over time. |
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Does not seem to matter since kids get alcohol either way |
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No, but the age limits on alcohol should be raised to age 30. |
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They need to be educated about alcohol and its effects, and until a teen can be trusted with the
substance, they should not be allowed to drink whatever and however they want,
allowing them copious amounts of alcohol from a young age will encourage binge drinking in teens,
like the problem is not bad enough,
for example, every Saturday night, living in a house of sixty girls, aged 13-18, every time you walk
in to the bathroom there is somebody chundering their guts up. They obtain their alcohol though
friends over 18. I do not think the age should be put up, but I think education on alcohol should
start at a young age, to (hopefully) ensure a responsibility in today's youth. |
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Just what we need, more drunks. Heck, let's just arm 2nd graders with cars, alcohol and handguns
too! |
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Anti_hero is right. The way to challenge underage drinking is to only sell the expensive stuff, and
impose harsher consequences on those caught drinking under-age, and anyone who supplies alcohol to
youngsters. |
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This is naive. Of course youngesters will abuse this, if you give them the choice the amount of
underage drinkers will rocket. |
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I think that it should actually highered! Alcohol can have some very bad affects on every one and
will damage younger teen and kids. I am not sure what age it should be but 21 is too young! |
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No way man!!!! I know people who are in there 30's who cant handle the responsibilities of drinking.
Teens, which is who we are talking about ,think there invincible as it is blurry there sensibility
and put them behind the wheel of a car ...that's a bad idea all around. |
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No. There are enough teenagers acting under the influence of alcohol as it is, without lowering the
age restriction. Doing this would make it worse. The amount of innocent people being seriously
injured or killed by violent teenagers who have consumed too much alcohol is overwhelming. It causes
thuggish behaviour and causes serious health problems.
Alcohol should be for adults only. Teenagers are not responsible or mature enough to deal with the
effects of alcohol. They do not understand the dangers. There are kids as young as 13 and 14
committing serious crimes and vandalising people's property due to the amount of alcohol they have
had. If anything I think they should make the age restriction higher. |
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Alcohol age restrictions should not be lowered in any way. The 20 percent of people’s death are
happening in the world due to the ill effects of consuming alcohol. Today’s sheer pressure upon
the teenagers would make them more attracted to the consumption of the alcohol and they will be
found causing more problems to the society. Lowering the alcohol age limits would make them free
from the bar of what they used to feel before it. No body can be able to see their children to
consume alcohol at a younger age. Before a certain age children don’t get mature enough to have
this alcohol in a controlled manner and thus it will be a much harmful step to reduce the alcohol
age restrictions without taking the consideration of its ill effects. Therefore I feel a strong
logic inside me for not reducing the alcohol age limits. |
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NO! Alcohol is the cause of 20% of all deaths in the UK today |
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By lowering the drinking age only shows kids that it is okay to drink. The facts prove themselves.
Look up the effects drinking can cause and maybe minds will change. Drinking is not bad but hurting
your body by a powerful drug is. |
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It is crazy to even think that they should lower the age requirement for alcohol consumption,
marriage, having children, joining the armed forces, or taking out a loan. All of these activities
require a mature, responsible adult and people who are under age are not mature enough or
responsible enough to handle these types of things. Above all, if the age limit were to be lowered,
it would just create more and more problems that young people are not ready to face or deal with
yet. Therefore, I am against lowering the age limit for such adult situations. |
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It helps fuel violence |
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This would not lead to more sensible drinking, it would lead to more problems.
The damage to health through drinking is very high and to allow it to younger people in this country
would be dangerous in the extreme.
Uk has the worst instances of alcohol related problem for young people in Europe. I think British
youth has demonstrated that it's irresponsible were drinking is concerned and lowering the age
limits will make this worse not better.
Mackenzie has summed up many of the problems, British young people just aren't mature enough to be
trusted with alcohol and risk damaging themselves and others as it is.
The statement that kids get alcohol as it is is no reason to make it easier to get. We all know they
get it somehow and we should be tightening up on the ways they get it and prosecuting them and those
who buy it for them. |
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There is no compelling reason to lower age restrictions associated with the purchase of alcohol.
Let's not forget that these laws aim to prevent teens and children from going into a store and
purchasing alcohol, or buying it in a bar. Parents and guardians, however, can still offer their
children a drink during special occasions or with dinner, if they wish to do so.
Purchasing alcohol takes a lot of maturity and a sense of responsibility. Binge drinking is already
a concern among teens, and making the purchase of alcohol more readily available would compound this
problem. Additionally, if a sixteen year old is permitted to drive a car in most jurisdictions,
imagine what a dangerous situation could result on the roads if he/she is also permitted to buy
alcohol and does not yet have the maturity to comprehend the consequences of drinking and driving. |
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15 Jan 2008 19:55
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