*DEBATE* Should The Legal Drinking Age Be Increased To 21? Winner = 01101101entor

[KickerFliper]

I think we should do a Turkey and change it to 14, then there would be alot less teenagers thinking there 'Bad' Or 'Hard' By drinking.
Or we can do a France (Not all of it Just around the middle) and have no legal age!

[Pulchritudinous]

The legal drinking age is fine, it just needs more enforcement, such as fines for teenagers drinking in public.
I've seen people succesfully asking adults to buy drink for them outside bottle shops, however, it is illegal to buy alcohol for a minor, but obviously there isn't enough enforcement.
Increasing the drinking age will cause more problems, you'll only get more kids thinking they are so solid because they are rebelling against a law.
So I say, keep it at 18 to be fair, but just a little more enforcement.

[KCMac]

The legal drinking age is fine, it just needs more enforcement, such as fines for teenagers drinking in public.
I've seen people succesfully asking adults to buy drink for them outside bottle shops, however, it is illegal to buy alcohol for a minor, but obviously there isn't enough enforcement.
Increasing the drinking age will cause more problems, you'll only get more kids thinking they are so solid because they are rebelling against a law.
So I say, keep it at 18 to be fair, but just a little more enforcement.

I coudlnt agree more.

Edit by Baving (Super Moderator) - Please do not post short comments like 'I agree' - Try to use reasons and evidence to back up points.

[GoldenMerc]

no i dont think it should but on the other hand it would help booze britain and little 13 year olds drinking.

[NekkLe]

I'll also agree that the legal age is fine, increasing the age limit won't have a massive effect on binge drinking and drinking below the legal age.
You'll still get teenagers drinking, no matter what age, people do buy drinks for teenagers but if they'd had any sense, they would know what there doing.
The amount of teenagers with fake ID's is quite high I think. The majority of my freinds have one and i've seen and heard others with one. There needs to stonger laws that help to back the whole campaign agaisnt under age drinking.

[RedStratocas]

Our drinking age in america used to be 18, now its 21. We had a discussion on it in english class, and our teacher told us why it was raised, and it actually makes a lot of sense.

1. Its a lot easier for a 14-15 year old to pass as an 18 year old. Have you ever seen a 14 year old that could pass as 18? I have a few times. An 18 year old can pass as a 21 year old, but then that just makes their age what the limit used to be.

2. 18 year olds are in high school. 18 year olds also throw a lot of parties in high school. They invite basicly everyone. Everyone meaning young kids. Thus the young kids can get the alcohal. I dont hear of high school kids getting invited to 21 year olds' parties.

Im not saying it should be raised for you guys, Im just saying there were reasons when we raised ours, and some make sense.

[Pawf]

Let's ask ourselves a few questions:
1) Who here drinks alcohol at home (legal)? I'm guessing a vast amount of people. It's easily accessable [sp?] for anyone:
Stealing from parents - do your parents keep alcohol in the cupboard?
2) Who here drinks outside of home under 18 (illegal)? I'm guessing a lot:
Getting older people to buy it - used to do it all the time, just offer them the change and they will do it.
Going to dodgey shops - many of these around, they will still sell alcohol to minors no matter what the age is.

What I am getting at is raising the drinking age won't do anything to help our health, we will continue to drink in private (parties or at home) without needing a liscense.

Raising the drinking age will, however, cut down drink related crime significantly as the "yobs" that fight and vandalise whilst drunk are mainly in their late teens. This will, undoubtedly, cause a lack of income for pubs making the tax on alcohol go up (another deterant to put young people off drinking)

All in all I think that the drinking age should be raised to 21 because by doing so we have nothing to loose. People will still drink at home no matter what the legal age to buy it is but public drinking will become safer and less crime will occur due to it

[sexy_gal13]

Let's ask ourselves a few questions:
1) Who here drinks alcohol at home (legal)? I'm guessing a vast amount of people. It's easily accessable [sp?] for anyone:
Stealing from parents - do your parents keep alcohol in the cupboard?
2) Who here drinks outside of home under 18 (illegal)? I'm guessing a lot:
Getting older people to buy it - used to do it all the time, just offer them the change and they will do it.
Going to dodgey shops - many of these around, they will still sell alcohol to minors no matter what the age is.

What I am getting at is raising the drinking age won't do anything to help our health, we will continue to drink in private (parties or at home) without needing a liscense.

Raising the drinking age will, however, cut down drink related crime significantly as the "yobs" that fight and vandalise whilst drunk are mainly in their late teens. This will, undoubtedly, cause a lack of income for pubs making the tax on alcohol go up (another deterant to put young people off drinking)

All in all I think that the drinking age should be raised to 21 because by doing so we have nothing to loose. People will still drink at home no matter what the legal age to buy it is but public drinking will become safer and less crime will occur due to it

how will it become safer people will do it more because they think it will be even more cooler cause they are so under age and i know from exprence its not a prettty site wen ya unde age mates r drunk so i think it will just be easier if it stayed them same then everybody is happy and there isnt more youngsters drinkin because they r bein cool cause they r brakin the law

[StripedTiger]

Well i think the age to buy drinks in a puc should be raised up and the age of buying drink from shops. but i also think that if you are with a parent you should be able to drink from the age of 14 / 15

[Pulchritudinous]

1. Its a lot easier for a 14-15 year old to pass as an 18 year old. Have you ever seen a 14 year old that could pass as 18? I have a few times. An 18 year old can pass as a 21 year old, but then that just makes their age what the limit used to be.

True, I'm 14, yet one of my mates was really tall, so when my friends were going to have a party or something, he just grew his facial hair and he was able to get served alcohol.

Um, I'm pondering now, perhaps 21 is more idealistic, if your still at school and allowed to drink, you can't be getting the most out of education when your having hangovers and parties.