The Believing Game Part B

On the other hand, there are valid reasons to consider lowering the drinking age to 19.  Binge drinking in college is such a norm that it is unsafe.  Students partake in drinking no matter where they go to school.  If the drinking age was uniformed at 19, all college students could participate in alcohol related functions.  If it was part of normal society, students wouldn’t act out or binge drink, because it is acceptable.  A study done in Canada at a University where 18 years old is the legal drinking age, showed that United States students who went there were far less viable to participate in binge drinking.  Because they could go do it whenever they wanted, students were more educated, and didn’t feel the need to participate like students do in the United States.  Further, you can fight for your country, vote, and subject to many other activities as a result of becoming 18 and a legal adult.  Yet, you can’t drink alcohol.  It seems undermining of our country to deem you an adult at 18, yet keep people from partaking in adult functions.  Finally, a lack of communication between younger adults and adults could be compromised by lowering the drinking age.  Young people and adults especially in a University setting could intermingle around alcohol.  In doing so, young people would learn how to drink from people who are experienced, instead of endangering themselves and others by teaching oneself unsafely.  There would be fewer deaths, injuries, and other alcohol related problems if you were able to interact with elders.  Overall, alcohol is a very controversial subject amongst Americans.  If we could come together and compromise as a whole, such as lowering the drinking age to 19, maybe our country would find a common ground after all.