Top Reasons to Keep Legal Drinking Age at 21
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REFUTATION
This site is a collection of facts on why the drinking age is currently 21, and it phrases those facts to steer the reader’s thoughts to keeping the drinking age at 21. It starts out with a neutral introduction by giving just the brief history of political concerns for having the drinking age at 21 and adds in some other facts that do not concern the reader.
The first statement for why the drinking age is 21 is about how the federal government will not deduct a proportion of their funding for streets and highways. This then puts the ‘blame’ on the federal government because the states are just doing what is in their best interest given the situation the federal government has put them in.
Another argument by this site is that the alcohol related accidents within a vehicle has dropped over the past 20 years. Which, like all statistics, is skewed by a number of different variables. Things like driving test standards have increased over the last 20 years (2pass). The abilities for cars to handle the roads, and even now cars can stop themselves if it is built in the last couple years. Also I know plenty of places that when I started out driving, I would know some corners were increasingly dangerous and in the 5 years I have been driving many of those have been taken care of. Over time society develops and we learn from accidents. There were accidents that were saved
from increasing the drinking age, but to contribute that fact to solely the drinking age is wrong.
The argument of a developing brain has been brought up on numerous sites, as well as this one. It is true that our brain is still developing at 18 more than it is at 21. However, I believe at the age of 21 a person is more free and distant from their parents than they are at 18. At 18 parents can be more involved in the development of responsible drinking, but at 21 many of them are at college or have moved out away from a parent or someone who has experience drinking socially.
The refutation I made in the paragraph above about the developing brain also can apply to the next
argument made on this site, that earlier exposure to alcohol increases the chance that he or she will gain dependence to it. Drinking can be an issue just like any habit you can have. They are hard to get rid of and can negatively affect someone’s life. If knowledge and experience with a safe use of that habit is brought upon in person’s life by someone they trust then these bad habits can be eliminated. Many people have had the solution of educational training outside of school like the current drivers training programs that exist in America. Many people believe that this would be useless and a waste of money, however, if you believe in parents teaching their children how to properly drink we already have some parents that don’t know how to themselves and a program would fix that issue. Also knowledge of how alcohol affects the body will at the least slow people down when they first consume alcohol, which will lead to more personal experience and knowledge about their own body and alcohol.
http://www.2pass.co.uk/page3.htm
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