Legal Drinking Age Discussion

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Why the legal age limit to drink alcohol should stay at 21?


Surname1
Student’s Name
Instructor’s Name
Course
Date
Drinking Age
The subject of what age should be allowed to drink has been very controversial in several states.
Some argue that the drinking age ought to be 18 others 21 while others even argue that it ought
to be 16. What most of these countries fail to realize is the fact that drinking comes with a lot of
issues and once a person is not old enough to be able to handle the issues, they may end up
messing their lives for good. Several key factors ought to be put into consideration when coming
up with age to be allowed to drink. All the factors get to point to the fact that the best drinking
age would be the age of 21. This is due to several reasons.
To begin with, there is the aspect of responsibility. A person who is 21 years old can be termed
as a fully grown adult who is aware of the responsibilities that come about with the decisions
they get to make in their lives. Alcohol costs money and if not well controlled can facilitate in a
person getting into debt due to looking for money to go out drinking. A person who is 21 years
of age can fund their drinking habits since most of them are done with the university by then and
have jobs that can be able to fund their drinking. Considering 18-year-olds, most of them are still
on campus and are not financially stable since most of them are still under their parents` care.
Therefore, once they are allowed to drink at this age, they will indulge in all kinds of activities to
ensure they can acquire fund to facilitate their drinking. This has gotten to result in a lot of the
teenagers being involved in a lot of illegal activities such as crime and selling of drugs to be able
to raise the funds they require.

Surname2
Responsibility is a broad aspect that gets to cover several issues. There is an aspect of sexual and
physical assault. According to the analysis, several students who were indulging in alcohol
drinking were also involved in cases of sexual and physical abuse. This gets to portray the aspect
of responsibility in the sexual as well as physical sense. Alcohol has a way of getting people to
be a bit rowdy and hyper. Therefore, if the consumer does not know how to control the alcohol
once they have taken it, then they may end up getting physical with each other or even sexually
abusing others. This gets to show the sense in having the drinking age at 21 since, by the time a
person ...


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