The reality is drinking and driving is illegal no matter what age you are so what difference does the drinking age make?

If you want to drink you are gonna get alcohol one way or the other. Drugs are illegal yet young people can get those quite easily.

In my opinion many laws are self righteous. You can kill for your country at 18 as long as you don't drink to it. Whats worse folks killing or drinking?

Like many mentioned earlier alcohol is available to minors in many European nations and ironically they have the least amount of youth related drinking problems. It teaches you something about human nature, when you tell someone(especially young people) they cant do something it makes it that much more desirable and exciting. It is only wrong because we think its wrong. In other places its not wrong so they dont think it's wrong and no one cares.

I think we need to get over ourselves and be realistic not self righteous.