Bristow, Jennie. "Binge Drinking Is a Normal Impulse." Alcohol Abuse. Ed. Ronnie D. Lankford. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007. At Issue. Rpt. from "A Bit of Bingeing Can Be Good for You." Spiked. 2005. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 16 Oct. 2013.
This viewpoint does a good job at pointing out the reason why people binge drink and the benefits or rather lack of negative effects of having a liberal drinking society. Britain's citizens, according to this article, are living a longer and healthier lifestyle than ever under the liberal thinking system for drinking that the country uses. This points to the idea that a lowering of the drinking age here in the US would likely have no adverse effects on the young men and women of the United States.
This article brings a good argument to the table on why drinking, wether underage or not, is not something that's going to be affected by any laws. People are going to drink no matter what and the idea of a more liberal drinking society where young adults can drink like the one in Britain can be a good direction to head towards as it will allow for more opportunities for adults to teach adolescents how to drink properly.
So, if I understand you, you believe that a liberal stance on drinking in society is actually healthy for society as a whole and that binge drinking is actually a healthy impulse. Therefore a liberal drinking age should be enforced? This is why the drinking age should be lowered.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to express that I strongly disagree, but I would lighten up to the idea more if some data was provided and then took very careful steps to avoid a false cause fallacy, otherwise known as the correlation implies causation fallacy. It sounds like this article is treading awfully close to that.
Jennie Bristow is a commissioning editor for Spiked Online and has also written for Living Marxism and Novo. These websites seem to be a bit radical so I have to be careful when using this source not to give it that much credibility.
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