Yes i believe that the drinking age is a horrible law, i don't think there sould even be a law but if there is it should be alot lower. anyway i wrote a short paper on this which i'll share if it's not to long.
Every single second time creeps along, slowly at most of the time yet much quicker at others. A few of these seconds are selected to be a universal time when people make great gains in maturity. The most prominent example of this is 12:00AM on your 21st birthday. At this exact moment in time you are declared mature enough to drink responsibly.who are they trying to kid, a second has never made much of a difference in a person. If a person isn't responsible enough to drink the day before he or she turns 21 there will be no difference the next day.
Selecting an arbitrary date is an extremely unscientific way to give someone a right that you stripped from him or her earlier. However it is the system that we decided to put into place and you have to learn to live with it. The government does the same thing with driving, voting, the legality of personal contacts/contracts, and the right to go and die for your country in battle. All of these rights are given to you by the time you reach 18 years of age, 3 full years before the right to drink.
A twisted morality is responsible for such an outlandishly unfair law. What kind of country are we part of when you can be forced into military service, which is against many people's moral and religious values. However at the same time they restrict your ability to enjoy yourself at home by partaking in an activity that many people don't find offensive or immoral in any way. However the government says that the drinking law is in place to preserve the morality of the youth, and yet they feel no moral obligation to spare people the mental anguish of having to kill someone. Our government was not created to enforce an unpopular morality on the people while restricting the rights of its citizens. However the rights have been gradually stripped from people until we get the system we have in place today, a system of binge drinking and alcohol poisoning.
It's a fact that most people do not adhere to the alcohol laws and start drinking before they turn 21. However because of how hard it is to acquire beer and liquor before you are 21 many people turn to binging. This is because when you get some alcohol from a hookup, people feel that they have to drink as much as they can because they don't know when they'll be able to get some again. This applies even if the place they are getting the alcohol from stays constant, because there is always a little bit of doubt in the back of their minds. When people drink this much, they occasionally get alcohol poisoning which is debilitating and in many cases extremely deadly. Not only are binge deaths occurring more frequently due to the 21 year old drinking law, but also there has been new danger emerging recently that stems entirely from the law.
The new trend of 21 shots on your 21st birthday is causing multiple deaths a year. The entire reason that people do this is to celebrate their first legal drink so if there weren't a drinking age this wouldn't be common at all. Ironically the people who have been drinking longer have a greater chance to live through the shots than people who haven't developed a tolerance yet. So a majority of the people who die due to this darker side of the drinking law are the people who actually followed it.
Does one second really make that much of a difference, can there be a universal date for maturity, must today's youth be restricted by a law that is based on an archaic morality, how can a law still exist after it causes hundreds, if not thousands, of unnecessary deaths per year. These are the questions that the government has decided to ignore as they strive to keep the status quo. If they don't do something soon, it is entirely to possible that the negative repercussions will increase and eventually this will become a plague on society.
i know it's long, just call me chairman jr.
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