Is the 21 year old restriction on drinking outdated?

[Serious]

it really bothers me that you can pick up a gun and go die for this country at 18, but cant drink til youre 21. i was just talking with a older coworker about the drinking age used to be 18 not too long ago.

It's really not that big of a deal. : Waiting 3 years wont harm anyone. But in several places throughout the world there is no age limit place upon the consumption of alcohol, yet they drink severely lower rates, as Gina pointed out. (ie China)


Too each its own, alcohol is overrated imo. A beer or glass of wine is cool every now and then, but the binge drinking sh*t tends to be problematic...

As far as the argument for serving the military and owning a handgun, quit trying to move goal post. Alcohol isn't an illegally banned substance, if people want to get their hands on it, they will. Not mention drinking alcohol is encouraged in the military, despite age.

 

[Nemesis]

In a country where you can legally take out a loan (student loan) that can possiably affect you for the rest of your life, where you can legally make credit decisions that can affect you for the rest of your life, where you can legally sign your life over to the military and where you can go to jail/prison with the big boys all at the age of 18 .......does it then make sense to then have an age restriction on the purchase of alcohol for these same people you deem as adults in other scenarios? If you think yes, by what logic?

Or, does the age restriction on the things i just mentioned need to be raised?

What are your thoughts on it?

Come to any town centre on a Friday and Saturday night in the northern part of the UK and you will soon change your opinion

 

[JasonSJackson]

Come to any town centre on a Friday and Saturday night in the northern part of the UK and you will soon change your opinion

i didnt even say opinion

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Like Gina said, the American drinking culture makes lowering the drinking age almost ethically impossible.

Indeed, cultural changes need to happen before drinking ages can be changes. The emphasis on "turning up" and binge drinking in America are major causes of poisoning and things of the sort. Its also a reason why people even in their older years drink so much during social events.

European cultures aren't perfect but the lax attitude to drinking its self is pretty cool, however what alot of people DON'T know is that drunkenness is actually VERY frowned upon ESPECIALLY in public. Unlike here where being drunk is just a kind of situation.