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humanodon  ·  4055 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Three beers a day keep the doctor away | ScienceNordic

Heh, I was more referencing the part in this article that talked about how beer has vitamins and other beneficial stuff.

I don't get this society's thing with alcohol at all.

"Alcohol makes money."

"Yay! Let's sell a lot of it!"

"Ok, but let's make people feel really shitty for enjoying it and spend tons of time outlining the dangers of it and giving it a mystique that will definitely not result in young kids binging on it because it's a forbidden thing."

Alcoholism is a reality of course, but as you say, the definitions people have on what an alcoholic is are really poor, outside of "a physical and mental dependency on alcoholism." People treat life like abstaining from everything will make you live forever, which is of course false. So much guilt. I don't get it and I was raised Catholic.

Why not aim to foster the idea that personal responsibility is respectable and that what is one too many for that guy is not one too many for another guy?