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My three strongest arguments in favor of lowering the drinking age are as such: First, people need experience to gain responsibility. People will always fail at first, and the longer they have to tadjust to a privilidge the better suited they are for it. Driving is much the same way. 16 year olds have the most accidents of any age group not because they are immature imps but becuase they have the least experience. While drinking isn't a skill per se, knowing tolerance can be. Secondly legal restrictions create an enviroment of scarcity. When things are scarse people psychologically want to consume it while its there. Finally people will drink no matter the law, but if its legal then it will be out in the open and people will be more likely to seek help in dire circumstances.
Now, I don't drink at all, but I still think the age limit is ineffective and futile. Living in a dorm as I do during the school year I can tell you people will drink now matter what. The colleges are resigned to this fact. The RAs ignored my roommates' alcohol and wrote me up for having an electric kettle. No joke.
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