Thailand is a Buddhist country and even though Thai people know that it is against a rule from the most important set of Buddhist precepts, some still drink alcoholic beverages. Adults are role models for teenagers, but are they really good examples? How can teenagers decide what is right or wrong growing up with those conflicts? In the society, adults want to teach teenagers to be responsible for their actions. But in reality how many of them have guided the teenagers a way to be responsible?
             Responsibility is an obligation in which everyone puts upon themselves, but it varies by degree. For example, children have an obligation to listen to and obey parents. By giving responsibility to teenagers, adults have to teach and trust them to know what it is and let them choose whether they want it or not. If teenagers do not want to be responsible for drinking it is their decision not to drink, not adults' decision to cut their choices. Drinking age is a good example of the decision made by adults to limit teenagers' choices. Teenagers should be able to choose what they want. The government should decrease the drinking age to eighteen like other countries to give teenagers a chance to be responsible for themselves.
             Teenagers drink because they know or do not know that it is wrong. By knowing, I mean they like challenges. Most teenagers seem to enjoy taking risks all the time. It is not the legal drinking age that can control the drinking issue, but it is the feeling of responsibility. I see underage teenagers drink all the time in Thailand and in other countries as well. I have friends who started drinking since high-school. Some teenagers think that when they do something wrong and get away with it makes them look better in their friends' eyes.
             As for not knowing, I mean many teenagers do not know when to drink. They do not recognize the drinking age. Most of the time teenagers are taught, either by their parents or tea...