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Originally Posted by sailor
In addition to what BOR said, Ive noticed that in those countries without such restrictive drinking laws, you dont see the same drinking problems you do in the States. It's generally unacceptable to be drunk in public, people dont binge drink, and while people drink more often (a glass of wine with lunch, dinner), no one does it abusively or to excess like they do in the States.
It seems to me that the drinking laws are nothing more than political wrangling that do more harm in the long run than help.
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Totally disagree with that - I spend entirely too much time in the UK and in Australia -- the 18 year olds that I encountered drinking there we not exactly responsible. and were just as obnoxious probably even more so than the 18 year olds who drink to excess in the US.
More often than not I would come out of the train station and head over to my hotel and encounter a staggering, drunken, vomiting, pack of boys who could not hold their liquor and while it was legal for them to drink, they surely should not have been drinking.
There are 25, 32, 37, 58 year olds who can't drink responsibily. Changing the drinking age doesn't prove anything. Changing attitudes towards drinking should be the goal, and not just in the US.
Why, is getting drunk so exciting and fun?