Poll: Raising the drinking age

[vanthebaron]

no keep it.

 

[Dana22]

It wont change anything.

Let the drunk kids kill each other.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I doubt it will work. Here in 'Murica the drinking age is 21 and people still go out and get drunk all the time in high school and college. Raising it means that all the underage drinkers are going to be doing it without proper supervision. Where would you rather have them drinking, in a legitimate bar/pub or secretly at a party that no one knows about?

Plus it's just going to make it seem all the cooler to drink alcohol. I know that a big reason that so many people drink when they are under 21 is because it's "cool". "Look at me I'm doing adult stuff even though I'm not allowed. I am disregarding the established rules and am therefore cool."

Something like drinking can't be controled through raising the drinking age and prohibition. It just means that people are going to be using less legal methods of getting what they want. Making it legal makes sure that the authorities can keep a better eye on it.

 

[Jimmybobjr]

A while ago there was talk of raising the drinking age from 18 to 21 In Australia, to combat the issue we seem to have with binge drinking and violence at our clubs/pubs

I don't see how this is really going to help the problem, if young people want to drink they are going to drink regardless, the only difference is they are not doing it on licences premisis, I doubt a 21 age limit is going to stop a 15 17 or 18 year old from drinking

I think the problem lies in the culture, its just a common thing to go out and drink till your hammered you have ot change that If you want to solve the problem

But what do oyu think? is raising the gae a good idea? could it be more harmful? how would you tackle the problems with binge drinking?

Yes.

Every single person in my maths class have been out drinking... Every one.
Except me.
Ad the people in my class are 15 or 16, i found this shocking. when i enquired Why they would break the law; "Why not? Who cares!".

I was stunned.

 

[sdMario]

It's not the legal age that is the problem, it's more a glamorisation of Alcohol generally, be it by media, parents, or peers. Yet personally, I think it's pretty much a nothing law, and most people seem to see it as such.

Of my year group, the majority of people have drunk on a regular basis from 15/16 years old, whether being bought alcohol by parents, older siblings, or by looking rather old..

 

[Vault101]

A while ago there was talk of raising the drinking age from 18 to 21 In Australia, to combat the issue we seem to have with binge drinking and violence at our clubs/pubs

I don't see how this is really going to help the problem, if young people want to drink they are going to drink regardless, the only difference is they are not doing it on licences premisis, I doubt a 21 age limit is going to stop a 15 17 or 18 year old from drinking

I think the problem lies in the culture, its just a common thing to go out and drink till your hammered you have ot change that If you want to solve the problem

But what do oyu think? is raising the gae a good idea? could it be more harmful? how would you tackle the problems with binge drinking?

Yes.

Every single person in my maths class have been out drinking... Every one.
Except me.
Ad the people in my class are 15 or 16, i found this shocking. when i enquired Why they would break the law; "Why not? Who cares!".

I was stunned.

I don't know where youre from, but the fact that its illigal means practically nothing over here, its socially acceptable, that part of the problem

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I think any country that lets you sign up for the military before you can drink needs to re-assess it's laws.

 

[dex-dex]

In Ontario the drinking age is nineteen. In Quebec the drinking age is eightteen.
when my friends turned eighteen we just went to Quebec for a weekend and get smashed.

people who can get their hands on it will use it. It is silly in my opinion.

 

[Computer-Noob]

Teenagers in their angst drink it when they are underage. Adults who mature also drink it. Depending on the alcohol (Ranging from beer to wine, in this case) it could separate class from filth.

Personally I think that the higher the drinking age, the further the separation between childhood and maturity will be. You could be 21 and have never drank in the US before, by abiding to the rules. I would imagine that the average teen would call such a person unhealthily sheltered.

Obviously alcoholism is a problem in certain senses, but changing the drinking age probably isnt the best step. Maybe if the current drinking age was more heavily enforced, for example, it is illegal to buy OR drink below the age?

 

[icame]

I believe that if the government gives you the rights of adulthood at 18 they should give you the right to drink also. But in the end it doesn't matter anyway, people will still drink it anyways.