War and Murder at the Age of 18? But You're not Allowed to Drink?

In America you can go to war and take some's life away at the age of 18. You can vote on the next president of the United States for the next four years at the age of 18. At the age of 18 you are technically considered an 'adult'. You can smoke cigarettes, view/buy porn, buy lottery tickets, all at the age of 18. The drinking age used to be 18 years old, I believe it changed some time in the late 80's. I strongly believe that the drinking age should be 18 still. Not because I don't want to wait for another year and a half, but because compared to the other things you can do at the age of 18 it seems reasonable that you can drink too. You can enlist into the military, which doesn't necessarily mean anything, but you can be trained to kill another human being. You can go over sea's learn how to use a rifle and how to strategically kill another human or numerous humans. At the age of 18 to be able to physically take someone's life is pretty intense, and you can't even go home and have a beer after that. At the age of 18 you can learn about politics, or pay more attention at least, and you can vote on who the next person is to run our country for the next four years. That's a pretty heavy burden on your shoulder's to be able to kill someone and to be able to vote for your president, but you still can't drink. Some of the other things aren't as important; buying cigarettes, buying porn, buying a lottery ticket. But still, those are some of the freedom's and rights associety with turning 18, being an adult and being able to make and choose your own choices.

Some people fight that the drinking age shouldn't be 18 because it makes young adults more irresponsible and more reckless. When the drinking at is 18 people think that there will be more drunk driving and more accidents that are fatal. I think those are some of the risks, but honestly adding four years isn't really going to make someone more mature. If you want to wait for people to be mature and not dumb when it comes to drinking and driving, you shouldn't let anyone drink until they're like 50 years old! Judging maturity is a hard to do because everyone matures at a different age and time. And some people are more mature about different things.

To hold people back from drinking because there have been a handful of fatal accidents seems a little strange because at the age of 18 you can go to war and you can still kill people, just with a machine in your hand this time. I think the drinking age should be 18 because compared to the other freedom's and right's we get when we turn 18, it just seems to make sense to me to be able to drink.