I believe that the drinking age should be lowered to 18.
Great. And…?
…okeedokee then.
Some would argue that 21 is too low and I would agree bc some people are still way too immature to handle it
Posting on College Confidential is definitely a way to change this.
If you want to have a lower drinking age, you can move to Europe.
I’ll drink to that
It’s 16 in most European countries
Creating an account just to post on College Confidential…
So how about also lowering the legal gambling age to 18…?
18 isn’t even a mature age to make decisions IMO. But my mom would probably change it to 30.
Drinking age was 18 back in the Stone Age when I went to college. Now that I am a parent I like the 21 drinking age 
Why is this thread still open, anyway?
Perhaps not, but how many topics get discussed every day on CC that won’t change because of it? That is kind of a weak argument. It is a way to discuss it, to solicit opinions. While I agree that the OP’s brevity was extreme, it is a bit like laying down a debate topic. One wants to hear the arguments for and against.
Because it is a perfectly legitimate topic. After all, as has been mentioned, the age was changed from 18 to 21. For that matter drinking has been allowed nationally, then prohibited, then allowed again. How is this not a topic? Voting was lowered from 21 to 18. Things change, and they can change again. I am mystified as to the reluctance to discuss it.
That is bordering on violating the Terms of Service regarding trying to get people not to post. I am tired of people using the fact that someone is a first time poster as a reason to be suspicious when the post is a perfectly legitimate topic and point of view. Everyone has to start someplace, and some people don’t like to post unless they feel strongly about an issue.
Also people forget that there are some that lurk for years without creating an account and posting, and then suddenly decide to do so. Let’s try to keep a bit more open minds.
I assume you meant that tongue in cheek, but it is a perfectly legitimate topic as well, and in fact would make a good companion to the topic posted IMO, since I suspect almost all the same arguments for and against would apply.
I actually agree with the OP. Unless we are willing to change the legal age of being an adult and able to make other major decisions that can turn out to be life and death (i.e. Joining the military) then it’s wrong. If we did the same with any other age group as far as legal drinking age (or almost anything), it would be age discrimination.
The problem is young adults from ages 18-21 do not pay enough attention to politics and voting to be seen as having power to get that change made and the people who do pay attention and have the power are past that age and don’t have an issue with it. This poster probably won’t care much about the legal drinking age when he/she is 22+ either.
In the few European countries that allow 16 y/o’s to drink legally, it is only for beer and wine; for most countries, it’s 18. Having said that, enforcement is less strict than in the US.
Apparently it has been an accepted topic on cc, since typing the words “drinking age” into the search bar brings up 100 pages of posts. But those threads were not started by a new poster with a screen name that matches their agenda. Hence, IMO, the type of responses that were seen here…
Drinking younger also normalizes it too much. When I was doing study abroad, it was kind of shocking how drinking behaviors that was probably be considered alcoholism here were perfectly normal elsewhere. When I asked a public health expert from that country about it, she told me about how its very rare for anyone to seek rehab for alcoholism until it’s too late, whereas since these behaviors aren’t as normalized in America, people are more likely to get help. And she also was very critical of the young drinking age, wishing it was higher there so as to be more like America.
OP hasn’t even visited the site since posting this.
Good point.
True - while I definitely agree that underage drinking is a legitimate topic and has been for a long time in our history, the post itself just seemed odd, which is why I responded that way. Probably wasn’t the best response. But many of the same arguments for drinking can be said about many other issues, such as the minimum gambling or driving age.
If a new poster had in fact been lurking for years without creating a screen name, they’d probably have known that the pictures that they had originally included in their OP were not allowed. Just sayin’.
Point taken, but that also could be used as an argument that fits with the poster having this issue as their main agenda. There is no rule against that. I also was making a separate point about the long time lurkers. I assume this member is a teenager, and not likely a lurker. But even if they only discovered CC on March 10, there is absolutely nothing wrong with creating an account with that name, posting this thread as their only contribution (so far), and waiting to see what the responses are.
In fact, along those lines:
Three comments on that. First, you don’t know that. There is nothing stopping anyone from viewing CC without signing in. Second, not everyone is as obsessed with CC as we are 
Third, I am not sure I would come back either if I had only seen some of those first responses. That is why we have the rules about not just civil behavior, but welcoming behavior, especially to newbies who may not be as familiar with how things are usually done here.