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Should the drinking age be lowered?

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  • It should be lowered to 18.

    Votes: 26 60.5%

  • It should be lowered to 13.

    Votes: 2 4.7%

  • It should be abolished.

    Votes: 3 7.0%

  • It should remain the same.

    Votes: 5 11.6%

  • It should be raised to an undetermined age.

    Votes: 1 2.3%

  • Alcohol should be banned

    Votes: 2 4.7%

  • other

    Votes: 4 9.3%
  • Total voters
    43
Solace

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I think it should be lowered to 18.
 
I agree. The drinking age should correspond with the age of majority, because people who are legal adults should not be denied any of the privileges of legal adulthood.
 
If you can vote and join the military at 18, you should be able to drink and smoke at 18.
 
If you can die for your country in a foreign war, then you should atleast be able to drink alcohol.
 
I'm against Alcohol, at best it will be allowed at 25 or later.How many kids have destroyed their bodies and souls with early drinking of alcohol!
 
Solace said:
If you can die for your country in a foreign war, then you should atleast be able to drink alcohol.
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What's so special about foreign wars? You can die for your country at any age once the war's on your doorstep.
 
I believe it should be legal for a 16-year-old to drink beer or wine, in the presence of their parents. 18 for purchasing beer/wine on their own. I think our puritanistic ideas about drinking are half the problem. I think teenagers should be taught, by their parents, to be responsible drinkers, rather than learning with their peers where binging is the norm.
 
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I'm against lowering the drinking age. I dont feel our social attitude towards alcohol is mature enough to handle younger kids drinking.
 
Here in Missouri you can legally drink alcohol at any age with parental guidance.
 
OscarB63 said:
that's not alcohol's fault, it's the parent's fault.
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How can parent fight against destructive public schools without Christian values, Bible, against too liberal K-12 education, and too much non-stop 24/7 liberal propaganda?
 
Alfons said:
How can parent fight against destructive public schools without Christian values, Bible, against too liberal K-12 education, and too much non-stop 24/7 liberal propaganda?
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There's a lot of conservative propaganda too. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News.
 
Alfons said:
How can parent fight against destructive public schools without Christian values, Bible, against too liberal K-12 education, and too much non-stop 24/7 liberal propaganda?
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it's not that hard.
 
There are only 9 states and DC that have no exceptions to the consumption of alcohol under 21. Here are the states laws/exceptions.

41 States That Allow Underage (under 21) Alcohol Consumption - Drinking Age - ProCon.org

I don't think that the state should be able to tell a parent that they are not allowed to give their teenager (especially 16 and up) alcohol. That should be a parent's decision. If there is a child that is getting drunk, then the parent should also be responsible for their child's behavior and/or health, even including criminal penalties where needed.

I believe that the legal drinking/buying age should be 18, but at the very least, states should be allowed to decide for themselves without having to choose between their drinking age or federal money.
 
Florida has ridiculous laws. Apparently, it's against the law for me to serve my children wine on special occasions in our own home.
 
Catz Part Deux said:
Florida has ridiculous laws. Apparently, it's against the law for me to serve my children wine on special occasions in our own home.
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One of the other sites said that Florida had some weird special exception that college students could "taste" wine for a class, as long as you 18.

Legal Drinking Age by State | DWI Blog

No one under the age of 21 is allowed to consume alcohol in the Florida. But interestingly you are given a freedom to taste alcoholic beverage if it is required of a class in a college. But to do this, you need to be more than 18 years old.
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Not sure how accurate this really is though.
 
This is a hard question to answer properly because one's ability to handle alcohol depends entirely on maturity. But that begs the question, does the government or should the government have the right to regulate maturity and decision making.

You know, you run into all kinds of ethical and legal questions with this questions. Is it Constitutional? The expanded modern interpretation of the Constitution says the federal government can regulate anything they want. The correct interpretation does not. So it becomes a state issue, which is where it has been since prohibition was abolished.

Is it moral? While most parents won't allow their kids to drink, some will give their children way to much to drink and it will result in death. But do predictable consequences of other's decisions that they made as a result of our action to change drinking laws hold us responsible for their mistake?

So what it comes down to, in my opinion, is that the federal government should stay out of it and each state must wrestle with the drinking moral consequences of changing the law. If you lower it it will lead to tragic deaths but it will expand freedom. If you don't, some will live but all will suffer from the lost (though minor) of freedom.
 
Alfons said:
How can parent fight against destructive public schools without Christian values, Bible, against too liberal K-12 education, and too much non-stop 24/7 liberal propaganda?
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Pay for a private Christian school.
 
I told this story in another thread a few months ago and will repeat it here. I worked my way thorough college working at a hotel which had several bars and clubs in it. I would often pick up extra shifts taking cover charges at the big main club. It was not any sort of tough place or biker bar or anything close to that. We might have one or two fights per week. When the voting age was lowered to 18, out state like some others also lowered the drinking age. What a disaster it was. All the sudden we went to almost nightly fights and sometimes on the weekends more than that. And it almost always involved one of the new drinkers under 21. Accidents went up and public safety went down. We got rid of the experiment after a couple of years.

Keep the drinking age at 21. it has nothing to do with going in the army or anything else. Drinking is drinking.

It reminds me of Robert DeNiro in the DEERHUNTER. "this is this, this isn't something else, this is this".
 
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The way drinking is treated in this country, it's not wonder kids go off drinking like idiots as soon as they get the chance. The soft drink business has made a fortune off of a higher drinking age, and making the comsumption of alcohol taboo.
 
The drinking age should be lowered to 18
The driving age should be raised to 18
 
Solace said:
Here in Missouri you can legally drink alcohol at any age with parental guidance.
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That law is the same in Louisiana. If given by a parent, guardian or spouse, there is no drinking age. People don't realize that. This law is in over 30 states.
 
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