...Conflicting Viewpoints Stuart M. Liron Strayer University PHI 210 9 June 2015 In 1971 voting age was changed from twenty-one to eighteen. Many states rationalized that “If young Americans could be entrusted to vote, serve on a jury, and fight in Vietnam, why couldn't they order a beer? “ For this reason during the late 1970s, the majority of the states in the United States (U.S.) also changed legal drinking age to eighteen. Subsequently, an increase in traffic fatalities in the states with the lowered drinking age forced state legislatures to reevaluate the drinking age. With a few exceptions on a state-by-state basis the minimum drinking age is now set to twenty-one in the U.S. In the U.S. at the point when an individual turns eighteen they are perceived as lawful adults with the rights to vote, serve on juries, get married, sign contracts, be indicted as adults, and join the military which incorporates taking a chance with one's life. There are less intoxicated driving car crashes and fatalities in numerous nations with the base legitimate drinking age of eighteen. In spite of the fact that the U.S. expanded the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) to twenty-one in 1984, its rate of auto accidents and fatalities in the 1980s diminished not as much as that of European nations whose MLDA are lower than twenty-one. The diminishing in inebriated driving fatalities as a rate of aggregate activity fatalities in the U.S. does not relate to the MLDA. Since 1982, two...
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