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Originally Posted by VamPyroX
They should lower the drinking age to 18 for the general population.
Drinking is a major issue in college because a lot of students like to be "bad" when they break the rule and drink. They feel "cool" from doing it.
By lowering the drinking age to 18, they are no longer "bad" because it's okay for them to drink. That will put it under control.
If they're old enough to leave home, old enough to join the military, old enough to have sex, old enough to do anything... then they should be old enough to drink!
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I agree, but however, by lowering the age to 18 would also get the teenagers to think they are "cool" when they do it. So apparently, there's a no-win situation.
I felt that part of this bill was just only giving the military personnel a "special" treatment while the general population couldn't drink at that age. Ironically enough, at 18 you're at a war or wherever it is at, you see a lot of more things that are horrid rather than drinking a beer or two.
Yeah, there's concern about drinking and driving but really, at 21, almost everyone has already drank before they got to that age. I know I did before I turned 21. It'd not make a difference at 18 or 21.