Dinge Brinking

Ah the wonders of alcohol, still yet to cease amazment and judemental opinion. You either drink it or you don't. However, there is a limit to how much is drinking to say, "binge" drinking. According to experts teenagers and young adults are increasingly drinking to much alcohol. Research shows $7.6 Billion is being spent on this "quiet epidemic". Many practitioners are concerned with the health of young binge drinkers and the impact it may force on there social lives. With these facts and statements the Australian government are considering banning alcohol till the age of 21...

RIGHTTT. 21? AS IF THAT IS GOING TO WORK! People are still going to drink, passout and do it all over again. You can't stop something so accessable and so socially accepted. It's like telling all fat people to stop eating McDonalds because it makes them fat, it's not going to stop them. Teenagers always have and always will find away to break the law and get what they want. How do you think they have been doing it for the last 60 or more years? It's not like they sat at home and read books. We want to go out and socialise, it just so happens drinking makes us more comfortable in our surroundings.

Now, I must admit...right now i'm really not a fan of drinking because of previous things in my life but I definatley know if my friends were banned from drinking, it still would'nt stop them. You can't stop them. They have friends who can get alcohol for them, its not like its going to run out.

So if this law comes in, what about the rule that parents are aloud to sit down with their children and have a few drinks to teach their children responsible drinking? From experience, the less the kids parents let them drink the more pissed they get at parties. It's just how it is, because they're not used to drinking in normal doses.

Binge drinking between teenagers gives experience to all young adults, helps them socialise and maybe even get the confidence to show off a little. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with dutch courage?...

Let the kids drink, let them spew their guts out and regret the night before. Let them experience the feeling of mistake and responsibility...

It's all about growing up.