Rollo De Accion

If someone robs a bank should you go to jail? The same concept applies to driving. Just because a few young, irresponsible people cause trouble it doesn’t mean that everyone should be punished.Alex Koroknay-Palicz proves in his editorial that this is completely unfair, just like how it is unfair to punish all teens by raising the driving age to 18. In fact, there are a few other age relatedsituations that people are trying unfairly change. The age should stay the same for teens to drive, for the elderly to drive, and to be able to vote.
The driving age should not be raised to 18 forseveral reasons. First of all, raising the driving age isn’t going to solve anything because it will just post-pone a teenager’s chance to practice driving. Alex Koroknay-Palicz wisely states in one ofhis editorials that inexperience causes accidents, not age. As you can see, raising the driving age will just create inexperienced drivers at 18 instead of 16. In fact, Alex’s editorial showssurprising statistics. Many people who are for raising the age to 18 say that statistics show that teenagers who are 16 are more likely to get in an automobile accident, but did you know that men are 77% morelikely to kill someone while driving then women? So if the driving age is going to be raised just because of what statistics show then all men should be banned from driving too. Next, raising thedriving age to 18 will punish so many innocent people for the mistakes of a few others. For example, don’t you just hate it when you are in school and your whole class is punished for a prank that a fewstudents committed? Allowing the driving age to be raised to 18 will punish so many people when they haven’t even had a chance to prove that they are innocent. In other words, raising the driving agewould definitely not be a wise decision.
Many people also argue that the driver’s license of people over the age of 80 should be revoked, but this would be completely unjust. For instance, taking...