All these college presidents have doctorates and you call them illogical?

It's logical to let 18 year-old die for our nation but not let them buy alcohol. Which takes the highest degree of responsibility, drinking a good Bud or firing a 120mm round from a M-1 Abrams Tank?

You can make life and death decision, sacrifice for us but you can't enjoy all your freedoms. That's Utah conservative patriotism.

I would agree that in America, lowering the drinking age is wrong, whats wrong with enforcing it?

America does not have a tradition of youth drinking a small cup of wine with the meal when eating with the family. The drinking tradion of in America of youth drinking is to drink to excess, binge drinking.

Given our culture and tradition of not responsible drinking, keep the age where it is.

If you're old enough to die for your country, you're old enough to drink in it.

Don't confuse "illogical" with "counter-intuitive." Binge-drinking among 18-20 year-olds happens now, and it wouldn't stop if the age was lowered to 18. Nobody is saying it would.

Imagine if we were talking about ketchup. If ketchup were banned tomorrow, my overall intake would probably go down. But if I went to a party were someone had smuggled in a barrel of Heinz from Colorado, I would consume much more of it at one sitting than I ever would normally. Assuming there are some risks to "binge-seasoning," I would be more likely to suffer those risks when I'm tempted to over-indulge due to artificial scarcity (i.e., the ban). As it stands now, ketchup is just a condiment and I feel no need to guzzle the stuff just because it's around.

That being said, I think the best and easiest solution is to leave the drinking age where it is and focus on moving away from zero-tolerance enforcement. Treat it like speeding and the problem goes away.

Re: "if you're old enough to die for your country, you're old enough to drink," I agree. So let under-21 veterans and active servicemen drink.

Look at the inverse argument. If you are too irrational to drink at 18, why do we let you join the military where adult decisions are required daily?

Let 'em drink.
Let 'em drive.
Let 'em do anything but have sex.