September 9, 1999 at 12:00 am #17765
Daria
Participant
It does seem kind of idiotic that we can drive before we can drink. You would think that it makes more sense if the drinking age were lower than the driving age. Then, we would have the chance to get the drinking thing out of our system before even learning to drive. The ages 16, 18, 21 and 25 are all pretty arbitrary. No one matures at the same rate. Someone at 16 may already be more mature than someone at 25. But it’s a little difficult to evaluate everyone individually. So someone somewhere decided that at 16, most people were mature enough to drive, but that most people are not mature enough to drink until they are 21.