Question of the Day-1/15/2008

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

Drinking age should stay 21 and harsher punishments should be introduced for those caught drinking underage.

 

[I'm a Divaaaaa]

I think the drinking age should be kept the same.

There's no need to drink at 18.
There's no need to drink at 21.
There's no need to drink at any age.

Drinking is a pleasure that,oftentimes, gets abused.

Let the kids who think they "need" to drink at 18 do it illegally. If they get caught, it's their own fault. They don't "need" to drink.

Just my opinion.

You don't need to smoke.
You don't need to drive.
You don't need to do anything recreational.

But we do.......

 

[Damhsa04]

I personally think it should be kept at 21. I see what everyone's saying about how at 18 you're able to defend your country and vote, but too many kids at my school just would abuse the privledge if most of the Senior class was able to get booze for them. Half of them get drunk at parties and on the weekend anyway and so more of them would be getting drunk. America doesn't need anymore teenagers dying from underage drinking & driving. And being able to get alchol at a younger age, I think, would cause that.

 

[CheezDoodle]

You don't need to smoke.
You don't need to drive.
You don't need to do anything recreational.

But we do.......

That's a good point.

 

[Babyjustrun]

I'd say lower it.
There, not here.
It's 19 here, which is a good enough age.
Almost everyone I know has had a drink at some point before they were legal. And the majority of them have done it responsibly, and have stopped before they got drunk.
Anyhoo, I don't got much else to say. I agree completely with Caitlin and Shelby.

 

[marypops!]

in the UK ours is 18 to legally buy alcohol... and you are allowed to drink alcohol when you're 5! (physics teacher told us...)

for me, i'd say raise the age in the UK... recently everyone in my year (except a few people, including me) went to someone's 16th and everyone got drunk... now most kids who went are planning to have a party just like that...

 

[Babyjustrun]

in the UK ours is 18 to legally buy alcohol... and you are allowed to drink alcohol when you're 5! (physics teacher told us...)

for me, i'd say raise the age in the UK... recently everyone in my year (except a few people, including me) went to someone's 16th and everyone got drunk... now most kids who went are planning to have a party just like that...

That's so crazy.

Persons aged 14 or over can drink with a meal, with their parents in public. (This is for the UK, I was just going to look up the age 5 thing and found this).

Where I live, apparently you can consume alcohol underneath the legal age with adult supervision.
And then in some other provinces, it's not illegal to drink at home underage.

 

[MrsSparrow..]

The drinking age in Britain is 18. Underage drinking is so easy in Britain because it is SO accesible. If I went to the right sort of places, I could probably be served alcohol without even to having show ID and Im 14/15. I don't do that by the way It's just common knowledge round my way!

If the legal age for drinking was 21 in Britain I think it would really help decrease underage drinking on the streets. I really don't like alcohol, I've tried it and I might drink it occasionally but ugh. Not for me.

I would say keep the drinking age, but I don't know what the lifestyle is like in the wonderful USA

-Ashleigh

 

[luvinyou]

The legal drinking age is 19 here, but its legal to drink at home with your parents at any age. But underage drinking is soo easy here, and so common. It is completely normal to drink with every meal, no matter waht age you are, so like everyone is used to drinking. All partys that i've been to from like 7th grade have had alcohol, And the rules are pretty lax at cafes and restaurants, I don't think i've been cared in the 3 or 4 years that i've been ordering drinks, and i'm 17. Underage drinking happens, and no matter if the age limit is lowered it will continue.

 

[xo juicy splash]

I say 19.

 

[crazytp93]

Lower it to 18.

At 18, you can join the army and be shipped off to another country to die. AND YOU CAN'T DRINK A BEER?

I am a little upset about that comment Shelby. When you say that you ship them off to die is really not right. We have plenty of war veterans. We have plenty of honoralbe war veterans.

 

[ktbutterfly2011]

You don't need to smoke.
You don't need to drive.
You don't need to do anything recreational.

But we do.......

So?

I never said you needed to do anything. I just said that drinking was a pleasure that was oftentimes abused. Sports are a pleasure but people don't often get killed over them.

 

[BabyPiglet]

I am a little upset about that comment Shelby. When you say that you ship them off to die is really not right. We have plenty of war veterans. We have plenty of honoralbe war veterans.

Have you not seen the latest statistics? So many, so many people have died so far in this war. It's a reasonable conclusion to say that they could be shipped off to die. It wasn't mean, Tom. It was truthful.

 

[weirdpaintballr]

I am a little upset about that comment Shelby. When you say that you ship them off to die is really not right. We have plenty of war veterans. We have plenty of honoralbe war veterans.

I agree with you crazytp93 (sorry, I'm not on here enough to know everyone's names ).


Not to mention, if you choose to join the military, you should be fully aware that there's a good chance to be stationed in another country. There aren't drafts anymore. No one has to be a soldier. Just please, keep that in mind.

 

[::Snow_White::]

I say lower it to 18 or 19.

 

[crazytp93]

Have you not seen the latest statistics? So many, so many people have died so far in this war. It's a reasonable conclusion to say that they could be shipped off to die. It wasn't mean, Tom. It was truthful.

I know a lot of people have died, but a lot of people have returned home. A LOT of people have returned. Saying "To ship them off to die" was rude. There is no way around it.

I agree with you crazytp93 (sorry, I'm not on here enough to know everyone's names ).


Not to mention, if you choose to join the military, you should be fully aware that there's a good chance to be stationed in another country. There aren't drafts anymore. No one has to be a soldier. Just please, keep that in mind.

Hi I'm Tom. Yeah--going into the military you know that you may perish in combat.

 

[DramaQueen]

The legal drinking age is 19 here, but its legal to drink at home with your parents at any age. But underage drinking is soo easy here, and so common. It is completely normal to drink with every meal, no matter waht age you are, so like everyone is used to drinking. All partys that i've been to from like 7th grade have had alcohol, And the rules are pretty lax at cafes and restaurants, I don't think i've been cared in the 3 or 4 years that i've been ordering drinks, and i'm 17. Underage drinking happens, and no matter if the age limit is lowered it will continue.

what the HECK part of Toronto are you from???
I definitley don't think it's really a norm to drink at every meal? I've seen that in Frnace, but never here?
And I've rarely been to a cafe or restaurant where my friends who are 19 (or under) haven't been IDed

ANyways, maybe your community is different than mine.
Our underaged drinking laws aren't really that strict, but I just had to comment on the 'having a drink with every mean' line. lol

 

[topaz_onyx]

It's 18 in England