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Persuasive Essay On Lowering The Drinking Age

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Okay, so let’s say that you’re at a party with your friends and you guys are drinking, then you hear a police car; your first instinct is to run, but you’re too drunk to think or even move. Then the cops come and pick you up and you get in trouble. You know that you got caught drinking because you were underage and because your brain isn’t fully developed, so you couldn’t process as well as you should have, so at that moment you got caught drinking. Aren’t you so smart? So now I ask you, do you really want to be in trouble with the law and everyone see you differently and judge you for one mistake you made? I believe that the drinking age should stay the same. There are many arguments about lowering the drinking age. People believe that if you can live on your own and be “independent” at eighteen, then you should be able to drink at eighteen. Also if you can go and enlist for war at eighteen and do anything as an adult then it should be lowered. But you have to think some of you guys haven’t even matured and you want to be treated as an adult. Like, how about not you can wait till the age of …show more content…

When you’re intoxicated you’re not in your right mind and you do things that will probably won’t remember. Also you might do things you will regret when you’re sober. You could hurt yourself or you could hurt someone else. Drinkaware.co.uk states that alcohol affects mental health and causes bad side effects. It increases anxiety and stress. In another way, it causes alcohol depression that might cause self-harm to you and to others. I believe that drinkaware.co.uk does state a good side because alcohol does mess up your brain and it can cause depression, so you might hurt yourself and the side effects might make you want to hurt someone else. Obviously, you will either hurt yourself or others that you might be mad at or that are around you. So I suggest that you not drink till the age of

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