Lowering Legal Drinking Age
Essay Type: Persuasive Essay Full Topic: Should the United States be more lenient with its legal drinking age? Should the drinking age be lowered to 18 (which is the age when you can legally vote, enlist in the military, and buy cigarettes)? Should minors be allowed to drink in their home with their parents’ consent? Key Points: Which of the four persuasive topics did you choose? What is your thesis statement? What is your position on the topic? Include two to three points to support your position. Identify at least two sources that you will use to support your points. What is at least one opposing viewpoint? Include two to three points to refute the opposing position. Identify at least one source that you will use to support your points. I actually have until 11:00 or 23:00 eastern time to turn this paper in.
Lowering Legal Drinking Age
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Amethyst initiative is one of the movements that have been gaining traction in last few years. Formed in 2008 by the likes of John McCardell and the like-minded people, the movement advocated for the need to lower the legal drinking age from 21 to 18(Mitchell, 2014).This age limit is defined in the Uniform Drinking Act of 1984, which was passed with the aim of raising the legal drinking age to 21. According to the act, states that do not comply risk losing 10% of their highway funds.
Thesis Statement: The legal drinking age limit should be lowered as it does not have any impact.
This is a very odd provision, especially considering that anyone at the age of 18 can have a firearm, vote, drive a motor vehicle, marry, join the army and even sit in the jury. This implies that, even the state and federal institution recognise that, by the time one is 18 they are mature enough to be responsible. If anyone can operate a firearm, marry or even join the military, there isn’t any logical explanation as to why they cannot be responsible enough to buy and consume alcoholic drinks.
Many will argue that, letting those at the age of 18 would lead to higher rates of accidents and unwanted pregnancies. It is true that accidents t...