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Originally Posted by EE-BO
The advantage of a drinking age of 18 is that a great deal of liability is removed from institutions and placed on individuals where it belongs.
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I wholeheartedly agree. So many of our events are ruined by ridiculous rules in place to keep 20 year olds who live own their own, paying their rent, etc. from drinking.
And BTW, I know tons of high school kids who use fake IDs that say they're 21 as it is, so changing it to 18 or 19 isn't going to make that much of a difference. At 15, I would drink at parties and then drive home because I was worried my parents would find out I was drinking. Now at 21, I'm too afraid to have even a drink with dinner sometimes for fear of DUI, not for fear of my parents. In the case of younger people, parents are a lot more threatening than the law. Lowering the drinking age would help keep drinkers to be more responsible.