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Friday, April 11, 2008

Mediation/Negotiation

I still believe the legal drinking age should be pushed back down to 18, but Charlotte makes a lot of good points about the problems of underage drinking and the harm it is causing not only to themselves but to others. We have decided that the best way to better the situation is to allow 18 year olds to drink only while under the supervision of a parental unit, in the home. This way the child will learn the lessons of responsibility and moderation from a hopefully competent adult before they get to college where heavy drinking has become a serious problem. We concurred that a person must be at least 21 years old to purchase any alcohol or to drink in public facilities like bars or restaurants. This will keep kids that have just started drinking i.e. ages 18-20 off the roads after they have consumed. This, we hope, will keep people with minimal experience with the effects of alcohol out of public places where other people can be affected by their actions. We believe that by the age of 21, people will have been allowed to drink for four years, which hopefully has allowed them to mature and figure out when they have had too much to do things like drive a car. We now see both sides of the previous argument as extremes and believe this blend is a good compromise. In conclusion, we have decided that people in the United States should be allowed to start consuming alcohol at age 18 only at home, when under their parent’s supervision in order to ‘live and learn’ out of harm’s way, while only people that are at least 21 should be allowed people to purchase alcohol or drink in public places.

1 comments:

MR. MILLION said...

I posted the comments on Charlotte's blog. I'll paste them here as soon as she accepts them.

One questions: Most states, as fasr as I know, have legal BAC limits that are very low, something like one drink--a beer, a shot, or a glass of wine in one hour. How does drinking at home with parents prepare kids to know when they shouldn't drive, when, in actuality, NO one should drive after drinking, considering the low BAC levels?