Keeping The Drinking Age Essay

Could you take the life of another or your own? Alcohol has become such a common and acceptable drink that people forget the fact that alcohol can be varied destructive if you don’t know your limits. In high school I new a girl who used to go out and drink with friends on a regular occurrence each week and one night her and two other got in to a car wreck. Their car had completely wrapped around a tree killing her two friends and leaving her in critical care. For the whole ordeal she got off with a couple of scars, some community service, and a warning, while the other two families had to greave for their child’s mistake. Most people will drink alcohol before they turn twenty-one, it has become one of those socially accepted thing at party’s or hanging with friends. Keeping the drinking age at twenty-one would be a smart thing to do because, If we were to lower the drinking age to eighteen we would be handing over more mature consequences that at their age, they could not comprehend, while if we were to raise the drinking age to twenty-five health problems would go down, but we would still have the problem of underage drinking.
In the article “Keep Drinking Age at Twenty-One: Teens Aren’t Mature Enough To Handle Consequences,” Joyce Alcantara argues that if we …show more content…
This however could be remedied by enforcing new drinking laws and if we were to rise the drinking age to twenty-five health problems involving drinking alcohol at a young age would go