The general American attitude towards drinking is ridiculous. If you are old enough to vote for the president and fight and die for your country you should be legally able to consume a beer or hell, 10 beers if you want (that's were the whole free country thing should come in). As long as you don't drink and drive or become violent, then the only person that you are hurting is yourself. There are not a lot of under-the legal-limit adults out there just wishing that they could get their hands on a six-pack but can't figure out how. This is even more true of people in college (greek or not). Also, maybe if the drinking age was lowered society stopped treating alcohol as such a dangerous, adults only, cool but forbidden thing than maybe kids wouldn't be so hell bent on trying to consume so much of it. It is not the fault of the greeks that college kids drink so much and perhaps drinking wouldn't be such a problem if the american public didn't insist on making it one.
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