Old Enough To Drink Summary

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According to a September 14, 2008 report in Rasmussen Reports, “Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Drink,” Debra J. Saunders argues that the legal drinking age should be lowered as it promotes the continuation of infantilizing teenagers who are all allowed to make life-and-death or serious decisions including abortion without parent’s knowledge, enlisting in the military, having operation or getting married. In addition, Saunders also argues that despite legal restrictions, most college students tend to break the rules which normally results in binge-drinking that occurs in college or even graduation parties. Saunders also compares the ideas and arguments of the two opposing groups, the Amethyst Initiative, led by former Middlebury College