Drinking Age Argument Analysis

In the 1970 to 1976 in America the drinking age was lower from 21 to 18. However, the country paid a major price for doing this. There was a huge rise in the amount of teenager and young adults dieing in car crashes on highway due to drinking. (Main) This information was found in article call “Underage Drinking and The Drinking Age” written by Carla Main for Public Review in Jun/Jul 2009 magazine. In this article she argues the benefits of maintain the current drinking age at 21
In Main article, she introduces us to “The Amerthyst Initiative” which is a public statement created by John McCardell the president of Middlebury College in 2008. This statement calls for public officials to repeal the drinking age and lower it. In Main article she says “The primary argument made in the Initiative 's statement in favor of repealing the 21 laws is that the 21 laws make alcohol taboo, thus driving underage drinking underground and causing more binge drinking to take place than otherwise would, due to the allure of forbidden fruit and the …show more content…
She makes her point by explaining lowering the drinking age will not have a positive impact on America young adults drinking habit. Main makes the point that drinking in our culture is commonplace. I believe this is true drinking even underage drinking does not carry a taboo any more like it did in the past. Even before I turn 21 I was surround by drinking and it seem the socially acceptable thing to do, and I don’t think that allowing younger kids into bar to teach social drinking will fix their irresponsible drinking habits. The second point is that education is not the solution. I agree with this, for nowadays everyone knows that drinking is wrong. Living in the present media age, all kids have heard of the negative effects drinking can have, and I don’t believe that people care enough to