Lowering the drinking age

Drinking is bad for the body if the person has too much alcohol in them. The drinking age should either stay the same or be upped. People should be wiser, more knowledgeable about the effects of alcohol, and be willing to take responsibility for their actions before being able to drink. To support my argument I have three reasons:

First, although some people would stop drinking because they only drink to rebel, those who like drinking would drink more. There would be more accidents because those who like to drink would get drunker and could cause more accidents due to their drunkenness. People would also drink more because authority can’t catch them for it. People still in school would drink causing trouble in the classroom where others are trying to learn. People barely learning to drive or not very good at driving would create more accidents because they can’t control the car very well with blurred senses.

Second, younger people wouldn’t have to break the law to go against their parents. Younger people would drink because it goes against their parent’s expectations and morals, and because they want to seem independent of their parents. People that are still underage could claim they are older. People could also claim that it’s their right to drink because the state said. Nothing is a person’s right until they earn it.

And third, some people would use the law against itself. People could say they are aloud to drink and the authority can’t do anything about it. People could say the law isn’t firm if it gets changed. People could also push the legislature by saying ‘you changed it once, you can change it again’.

To conclude, people don’t really get why they shouldn’t drink. People have hazed senses when they drink and could be a bigger harm to society if the drinking age is lowered. People could also be driven be those hazed senses and the liking of alcohol to push the legislature farther than they want to. If the drinking age were to be lowered people who like to drink would complain, or for some, rebel if it were to be upped to what it is. For these reasons, the drinking age shouldn’t be lowered.

Anthony