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EternalEnigma21 · 08-20-2008, 04:10 PM

I still don't get the logic behind the statements... that somehow being "exposed" to alcohol earlier will make them more responsible? wtf? I just don't get the logic. Binge drinking may go down at the college level (i doubt it, though) with the lowering of the age limit based on the fact that the people who are likely to wrecklessly abuse alcohol will drink enough to derail their lives before college, keeping them out of schools entirely...

The reason all the binge drinking and general debauchery goes on in college, is that its many young peoples first taste of freedom, and liberty from parental rules... It really has nothing to do with the legality of alcohol. If the only consequence of lowering the age were that less college age kids would be breaking the law, I'd be all for it...but alcohol is already pretty prominent in high schools, where kids are bad enough drivers, impressionable, and irresponsible. Why make that problem worse? And it would. I guarantee we'd see a spike in dropout rates, teen pregnancies, alcohol related fatalities, etc... among high school kids.

Maybe that's the angle? Either way the negatives far outweigh the positives. When I was 18 or even closer to 21 I would've argued all day long for lowering the age, but not now.

08-20-2008, 04:10 PM	#36
EternalEnigma21 Assistant Regional Mod Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Carbondale CO Age: 46 Posts: 2,958	Re: College Presidents asking for a lowered drinking age. I still don't get the logic behind the statements... that somehow being "exposed" to alcohol earlier will make them more responsible? wtf? I just don't get the logic. Binge drinking may go down at the college level (i doubt it, though) with the lowering of the age limit based on the fact that the people who are likely to wrecklessly abuse alcohol will drink enough to derail their lives before college, keeping them out of schools entirely... The reason all the binge drinking and general debauchery goes on in college, is that its many young peoples first taste of freedom, and liberty from parental rules... It really has nothing to do with the legality of alcohol. If the only consequence of lowering the age were that less college age kids would be breaking the law, I'd be all for it...but alcohol is already pretty prominent in high schools, where kids are bad enough drivers, impressionable, and irresponsible. Why make that problem worse? And it would. I guarantee we'd see a spike in dropout rates, teen pregnancies, alcohol related fatalities, etc... among high school kids. Maybe that's the angle? Either way the negatives far outweigh the positives. When I was 18 or even closer to 21 I would've argued all day long for lowering the age, but not now. __________________ I am the brute squad.