Post: Underage drinking.
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10-25-2010, 12:20 AM
#1
Gee
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"The minimum age for the purchase of alcohol is 18. People aged 16 or 17 may consume wine, beer or cider on licensed premises (pubs/bars/restaurants) with a table meal. In England and Wales, it must be an adult who orders. In Scotland, no adult is required to be present. The legal age for the purchase of alcohol from an off-license (store/supermarket) is 18. (The legal age to buy liqueur chocolates is 16. but this is rarely enforced.)"
I personally feel that at the age of 16 you should be able to purchase alcohol.
Why? - Well by the time you're 16 you'll of left/be leaving school, that's a big point.
After leaving school you're now finished with compulsory education, you're deemed mature enough to decide and pursue any future education leading to employment, specialised or not.
If you're mature enough to decide whether you receive future education and whether you get a good job or end up on benefits, then in my eyes you're mature enough to decide whether you can drink alcohol or not.
Now I know what you're thinking "We have a 15/16 year old here who wants to drink but mommy and daddy won't let him"
A few things wrong with that:
1) I don't know my Dad Haha
2) I am allowed to drink. My mom purchases it occasionally for me.
One thing right with that sentence:
1) I am 15.
But the fact I understand the pro's and con's of being mature enough surely should justify my maturity.
What's your thoughts on the matter?
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10-25-2010, 11:50 AM
#38
Gee
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Originally posted by MR.420
Maturity is a big factor, and with age, maturity grows, a logical age is honestly 18 and i believe that that is what it should be here in the U.S. instead of 21, but what pisses me off is that a majority of the teenagers aren't mature enough to accept the fact of drinking, they see it as a social positive, that it makes them "cool" but seriously, mature people don't drink to be cool, and if the age limit was 18, that would make drinking less of a taboo it wouldn't really be "cool" to be drinking because of course, every one does it. BUT that is not the case, and we still have some immature little cocky kid's that want to rebel, which i think is absolutely unnecessary. And yes, some kids may be more mature than others, but a general majority is the same, iv'e seen it day in and day out, dumb little high school freshman's acting up and being morons at parties and such, it's more embarrassed than "cool". Here's a prime example of immaturity:
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No person would go to a store and take a picture with a case a beer, that is just childish. So, overall, underage drinking is never going to stop and those kid's are going to grow up and get struck with reality so it's all just a matter of time.However, i do support the drinking age being at 18, this would be a devastating blow to their immature ass blown up inflated egos.
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No person would go to a store and take a picture with a case a beer, that is just childish. So, overall, underage drinking is never going to stop and those kid's are going to grow up and get struck with reality so it's all just a matter of time.However, i do support the drinking age being at 18, this would be a devastating blow to their immature ass blown up inflated egos.
I would thank you if I could, good arguements.
I totally agree, the imature kids ruin it for the mature ones *sigh*.
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So much to say to all these comments but I can't be bothered LOL.
Everyone chill, I'm not promoting drink-driving.
10-25-2010, 11:56 AM
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10-25-2010, 04:54 PM
#43
xXviciousbumXx
At least I can fight
Originally posted by metalmouth647
That dosnt have anything 2 do with me, so gf.
If you stay so ignorant about drunk driving something like that is going to happen with you. Drunk driving accidents happen way to often and its all from people like you who think that drinking doesn't impair your driving. How would you like to black out while driving and run somebody over and end up with 20 to life for vehicular manslaughter and dwi? How can you think your mature enough to drink if your not even mature enough to make the right decisions? This is why the drinking age should be at least 18 and even that's pushing it.
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10-25-2010, 09:03 PM
#45
420
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Originally posted by Gee
I would thank you if I could, good arguements.
I totally agree, the imature kids ruin it for the mature ones *sigh*.
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So much to say to all these comments but I can't be bothered LOL.
Everyone chill, I'm not promoting drink-driving.
I totally agree, the imature kids ruin it for the mature ones *sigh*.
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So much to say to all these comments but I can't be bothered LOL.
Everyone chill, I'm not promoting drink-driving.
lol that happens alot, the thanking thing.
But yea, everything has a limit, and i know you know that too. Drunk driving doesn't seem like such a big issue to most people until they get involved through a personal experience. Honestly, you don't even have to be the drunk driver, they can hit you. People are blind to these facts. Drunk driving related deaths are one of the hand full of things that can be prevented, yet we have mortality due to these hammered idiots that decide to drive. It's a shame.
10-25-2010, 10:03 PM
#46
Madison Taylor
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