This adult is prepared to die for their country and still one may have the audacity to claim they are not prepared to consume alcohol. .
Not only should the legal drinking age be altered due to the maturity of adults but also in order to maintain a safer environment for everyone involved in the consumption. Safety and the well-being of others should be the top priority of altering the legal drinking age. By lowering the legal drinking age one will provide a suitable and professional environment for drinking, in contrast to the current, unsupervised, environments. For example, a licensed business such as a restaurant is much safer than a frat house. Providing a suitable environment also helps promote better drinking habits by limiting one's ability to binge drink.
Reducing the current legal age limit will also decrease fatal alcohol related accidents. "In terms of alcohol-impaired driving and related fatalities, a recent NHTSA study that compared DUI laws in the United States to those in comparable nations, such as the European Union States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Brazil, found that the United States had the highest proportion of traffic fatalities that were alcohol-related among the 12 countries reporting data." In this case, the United States is the only country with a legal drinking age of 21 statistically providing a strong correlation between alcohol related accidents and the current legislation. .
The National Minimum Drinking Act of 1984 is largely ineffective. According to the World Health Organization, "15 and 16 year-old teens in many European states, where the drinking is 18 or younger, have more drinking occasions per month, they have fewer dangerous, intoxication occasions than their American counter parts." The Act of 1984 was proposed in order to prevent such occurrences but in fact it is counterproductive. The Act of 1984 generates an unnecessary taboo surrounding alcohol.