In the USA the minimum age of drinking is 21 and you can drive when you're only 16 years old. While here in Belgium you can drink when you're 16 and you can drive at 18. So, is it a good idea to allow people to drive BEFORE they're allowed to drink? Isn't is wrong to introduce young people to alcohol when they're already driving? Wouldn't it be better if they can't drive legally when they are at the age where they can experiment with alcohol?
I think people should be allowed to drink before they can drive. Because when young people doesn't matter when they're 16 or 21 they certainly WILL start experimenting with alcohol. And at least once they get too drunk to drive. But if you're that drunk you don't think about safety and you drive home yourself anyway, and even if that happens only once they can cause an accident where maybe children die in. When you live in the USA this is perfectly possible.
In Belgium you can drink like 2 years before you drive. So by the time you can drive you're done experimenting and they can take their responsibility and decide not to drive when they're too drunk and when they do they can punish them harder.
-Tess
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