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It's ridiculous for the drinking age to be 21. Here in Canada it's 19 and that seems like too high to me. God knows everyone I knew was all drinking well before legal age anyways. But it's not like I particularly care, I don't think it would make much of a difference socially, in terms of increasing or lowering rates of drinking, I mean, people are gonna drink if they want to, legal age or not.

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Nothing will really get the drunks off the road.

I don't see changing the drinking age having any affect on anything, as it's largely ignored by those who drink anyway.

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I agree with =PaulStrealer on this one, whether they change the drinking age or not, it's still going to be ignored by younger kids that want to drink alcohol. Needless to say, changing the age would have made my RA job A LOT easier considering the alcohol busts we had to do.

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Won't change anything, people are binging because they're stupid not because it's illegal. Okay, a handful are. You'll save a few dozen and a whole bunch who weren't because they were too young now will. I know guys who are 35 who drink alcohol like they breathe air.

A lower drinking age does not make smarter people, these "educators" are just being lazy, they don't want to bother educating people and they don't want to bother stopping them either.

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I disagree. Most of the people I know slow down on their drinking once they hit legal age. Maybe it's just because I'm in the alcoholic capitol of the world, but peak concern for alcohol abuse seems to be in the 17-22 range. People who keep binge-drinking into their mid-20s are alcoholics, anyway.

Like most behavior, having sanctions placed against it gives it impressive appeal. Hell, I've been told not to do things it wouldn't have occurred to me to do in the first place, and once I was told not to do it I could barely prevent myself.

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See, I don't operate that way, never did, lots of people are like me too. We don't see the appeal in doing it 'cause we're not supposed to be doing it. I mean, writing that out, it even sounds stupid.

And I'm aware of where peak concern for alcohol abuse is, but lets look at that for a sec? Why does it peter off at 22? Well, because some people learn their lesson, and some people find it loses appeal because it's legal.

Now, considering it took them several years to "learn their lesson", won't lowering the drinking age simply make people start drinking even younger and take longer to learn their lesson?

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You know, it baffles me why anyone would seriously want to maintain these draconian drinking laws. I'm sorry, but kids dont CARE what the nanny states say about it, and in the end, all these laws accomplish is criminalizing young adults for doing something which is done routinely in EVERY other country on the planet. Its nothing more than a watered down variant of Prohibition.

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If you allow kids alcohol, they won't want it. They're rebellious and cuious by nature.

(a bit of a dead horse indeed)

Meh... I don't really care if they do or not.

In countries where there is no drinking age, I've seen that people tend to be more comfortable with the idea with it and are more smart about it. They don't tend to abuse it as much. (Well, they might. I don't actually know any statistics about it.) Also, drunk driving accidents are often caused by teens who are inexperienced in general. In a lot of european countries, you can't get your license until 18.

Either way, eliminating the drinking age in America isn't going to happen...
And there's not a whole lot you can do about drunk drivers... and I don't want the driving age raised.

However, I think that there might be less trouble with inexperienced drivers now that- at least in Illinois- kids have to do twice as many driving hours as last year. (Sucks for me, especially since I can only do daylight hours until I get glasses.)
Maybe that'll have an effect?

My hopes are not high

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