This isn't about "defending" anything. Alcohol is a dangerous substance. And most people here know that.

That said your level of fear mongering is extreme to say the least. You sound like someone telling everyone not to go within 1km of an ankle deep pond because they'll drown.

While possible in both cases to get permanent brain damage or drown. It is extremely unlikely on a winning a large lotto level.

Almost all people will pass out or start throwing up, long before they get near that level. Especially if they are not already an alcoholic with huge tolerance.

Source: 20 year hard core binge drinking alcoholic (20-30 drinks a day or more). That has been in the hospital 6 times for withdraw myself. And in rehab multiple times with large groups of other extreme alcoholics...

Edit: I strongly suspect most (if not all) those you thought had that condition were actually under the influence. Daily drinking alcoholics are extremely good at both hiding it ( oh I have to go to the bathroom) and lying about. They will tell you straight to your face they haven't had a drink in weeks after you just caught them drinking a beer.

1. You are not much fun. 2. You have never been to a good party. 3. Humanity owes its existence to alcohol. Beer and wine were the only safe drinks before water purification.

Alcohol also creates reproduction.

You also will vomit when too much alcohol is consumed. Even if you are passed out.

My man, if you think I didn't do my fair share of stupid drinking, you're severely underestimating what college does to a young man.
Things that I did and not particularly proud of:

• drinking a standart 0.5 liter bottle of vodka in one gulp (the trick is to swirl it so it does a little whirlwind, this way it creates laminal flow)
• drinking 80% proof alcohol like it was regular vodka
• drinking so much beer in one sitting, it was sloshing inside me like I was a baloon.
• much much more.

Was it not smart? Yeah, totally. Was it fun? If you account for all the vomiting and hangovers and states of total drunkinnes, overal no, it wasn't fun, don't recommend. Did it give me any permanent damage including death? Nope, I was lucky enough to be smart enough to not make it an addiction, and because of that I am alive and as healthy as I could be at my age.

I literally just entered your search terms and literally clicked search and, literally, I mean it, not figuratively, literally it responded:

No results were found. Your search was processed without automatic term mapping because it retrieved zero results.

I literally just copy/pasted that response here because I literally knew you are making shit up, you lying propagandist.

Lying. Propagandist. Go back to handing out Chick tracts to people who toss them in the recycling bin.